Lamp Flower Smile

It was so quiet that there was no sound.

Medicine man?

What medicine man?

Lin Danqing looked at Pei Yunying and asked blankly, "What does Pei Dianshuai mean by this?"

Ji Xun also frowned and looked at him.

"Do you remember that Miao Liangfang mentioned Mo Ruyun, the daughter of the Mo family in Shengjing, on the day of the celebration banquet of Renxin Medical Clinic?"

He raised his eyes, looked at everyone in the room, and said slowly, "She was Mo Ruyun's medicine man."

This was too shocking. Everyone in the room looked at each other and didn't understand for a while.

After a while, Lin Danqing asked in confusion, "Isn't Mo Ruyun dead? How could Sister Lu be her medicine man?"

Everyone was present at the celebration banquet of Renxin Medical Clinic. As Miao Liangfang said, Mo Ruyun was found to have raised a medicine boy and had died in the fire in Shengjing. When she died, Lu Tong was still young and in southern Jiangsu. In any case, there was no reason for the two to be tied together.

"She's still alive," Pei Yunying said in a hoarse voice, "She's on Luomei Peak."

Miss Lu San from Changwu County disappeared in the great epidemic nine years ago, and Lu Tong, who appeared in Shengjing two years ago, avenged the Lu family all the way with fierce and decisive means.

A person's temperament changes greatly between childhood and adulthood, and the seven years in between can be imagined.

When he first learned about Lu Tong's identity, he was already suspicious.

Lu Tong said that she was taken away by a passing master, but since she was going to study medicine, why didn't she tell her family. Moreover, Lu Tong was just a weak child nine years ago, and the Lu family had no medical inheritance, so why did they value talent?

I'm afraid that Mo Ruyun didn't give her the opportunity to say goodbye to her family at the beginning, and as for taking her away, it was not to teach the disciples, but to use her as a drug testing tool.

Drug testing tool.

He closed his eyes, and his heart was suffocated for a moment.

Ji Xun took two steps forward and took Lu Tong's hand. Before Chang Jin could stop him, he saw him lift up Lu Tong's sleeve.

"Doctor Ji..." Lin Danqing shouted.

Ji Xun didn't notice anything and just stared at what was in front of him.

There was no spot from the sleeve to the elbow. The woman's arm was very thin and weak, like a lonely plum tree branch, with a long scar on it, showing it hideously.

Ji Xun's pupils shrank.

"The scar is still there..." he murmured.

In the Huangmaogang hunting ground, the scars of Lu Tong being bitten by Qi Yutai's vicious dog were still there.

In an instant, Ji Xun understood.

Since Lu Tong was bitten, he gave Lu Tong a lot of Shenxian Jade Skin Cream.

Shenxian Jade Skin Cream was made by him. He dare not say that there will be no scars left after using it, but at least it will be much lighter. At that time, in the Medical Officer's Office, he saw that Lu Tong's scars did not improve and asked a few more questions. Lu Tong told him that the ointment was expensive and she was reluctant to use it, so he made a few more bottles for her.

So many ointments are enough for her to fade the scars. Instead of being so obvious now, it is no different from the beginning.

Now it seems that it is not that she is reluctant to use it. But those ordinary ointments are no longer useful for her body.

She has been a medicine man, so when Ding Yong tried new medicine, she was fiercely opposed to it.

It turned out that this was the crux of the problem.

The room was silent.

As a medical officer, he could see that there was something wrong with her wound. Lin Danqing said in a trembling voice: "How long has she been a medicine man?"

Pei Yunying looked at the person on the bed: "I don't know."

Chang Jin walked to Lu Tong's side, checked her pulse carefully, and his expression changed a little.

"There is nothing wrong with her pulse. If she has really been testing drugs for many years, her body has become accustomed to various drugs and poisons, and it is difficult to find the root of the disease."

It is like a tree that looks intact on the surface, but has been corroded by ants inside. Only when it finally decays can people find clues.

"Doctor Chang." Pei Yunying suddenly spoke.

Chang Jin looked at the person in front of him.

"Save her." He said.

Chang Jin was stunned.

He had seen Pei Yunying many times in the imperial city.

No matter how humorous and friendly this commander looked, Chang Jin always felt a little scared when he saw him. Pei Yunying's reputation has always been two extremes. People who are not familiar with him always say that he is handsome and warm, but people who are familiar with him say that he is perverse and terrifying.

It seems that no one has ever seen Pei Yunying really bow to others. Even in the imperial city, he is a little arrogant when he salutes, not to mention such a pleading tone.

He is always at ease.

Now, this calm was broken for Lu Tong.

It seems that the rumors in the imperial city are not false.

Concern leads to confusion.

"Even if you don't say it, we can't just leave her alone." Chang Jin raised his head, "She is a doctor in the Imperial Academy of Medical Officers. She used to be a doctor who saved people. When a doctor is sick, she is a patient."

"Doctor Lin," he called Lin Danqing, "Except for the doctor on duty at the plague station, let all the doctors come here immediately. Doctor Lu's condition is different from the usual one. This problem cannot be solved by one person. Let's think of a solution together. The Imperial Academy of Medical Officers has received so much salary, and now it can't even treat a colleague well. If you tell others, you won't be a job. From today on, Doctor Lu is our patient, and all doctors will work together to diagnose her!"

"Yes, Chief Doctor." Lin Danqing hurried out the door to call the others.

Chang Jin called Ji Xun and went forward to see Lu Tong again. Pei Yunying said, "Doctor Chang."

"Before Lu Tong went down the mountain, he asked me to bring the golden tan in the medicine basket back to the plague center."

Chang Jin and Ji Xun were startled. They only then noticed that the medicine basket brought back by Pei Yunying was filled with herbs, and the most common ones were golden flowers, which were tender and bright as spring came.

Pei Yunying said calmly: "She said that this flower can relieve heat and poison. If the red wood vine is useless, Doctor Ji might as well try to add this flower to the new prescription and replace two medicinal materials. It may be useful for the epidemic in southern Jiangsu."

The two were stunned.

Lu Tong has already fallen ill and looks extremely weak, but she is still thinking about the epidemic in southern Jiangsu.

It seems that the reason why she braved the wind and snow to go up the mountain is for this flower.

Chang Jin's throat was a little dry.

Lu Tong has always been quiet and treated people coldly when she was in the medical officer's office. The medical officers thought that her temperament was like this. She was calm but not humane. As a doctor, she always lacked two degrees of warmth and kindness.

Now it seems that she didn't say anything because she could bear it. She was obviously suffering from illness, but she still went into the mountain regardless of the danger.

What a silly child...

...

The smell of medicine outside the plague station wafted again.

The red wood vines in Pingzhou are still on the way, but the golden tannins brought back by Lu Tong solved the urgent problem.

The medical officers gathered together and stayed up all night to change the new prescription. The medicinal properties of golden tannins are not as strong as those of red wood vines, but they just happen to have little effect on the weakened bodies of the patients infected with the epidemic.

Cuicui also drank the new medicine.

Since her father's death, she has been much quieter and not as lively as before.

Lin Danqing packed up the empty medicine bowl and was about to go out when Cuicui called her.

"Doctor Lin," the little girl hesitated for a moment before speaking, "Is Doctor Lu okay?"

Everyone in the plague center said that Lu Tong went to the mountain to pick herbs for the patients, so the patients changed to a new prescription. But Lu Tong himself suddenly fell ill with an old illness and was bedridden, and he has not appeared in the past few days.

Lin Danqing was silent for a moment and said, "Not bad."

"Doctor Lin, can I ask you for a favor?"

"What is it?"

Cuicui looked at her and said, "Can you apologize to Doctor Lu for me?"

Lin Danqing was stunned.

Cuicui lowered her head, twisted the corner of her clothes, and whispered, "My father had an accident before, and I blamed Doctor Lu... I know it's not her fault, I was too sad..."

"Grandma Hong from the plague station said that Doctor Lu went to Luomei Peak to collect herbs for us. Luomei Peak is very dangerous when it snows. People in southern Jiangsu know it. I wanted to apologize to her, but Doctor Chang said that Doctor Lu hasn't woken up yet... When will she wake up?"

The little girl who lost her parents timidly put a grasshopper in Lin Danqing's palm.

Lin Danqing looked at the grasshopper in his hand, and after a moment, he squatted down and touched Cuicui's head: "She has never been angry with you."

"Medical Officer Lu is the most generous person who doesn't care about things," she said: "She will wake up soon. When she wakes up, she will come to you to weave grasshoppers together."

Cuicui nodded, but Lin Danqing felt sad and didn't dare to look at it anymore. He got up and walked out of the plague station quickly.

It snowed every day in southern Jiangsu, and the north wind made people's faces hurt. Lin Danqing packed up the medicine bowl and went back to the direction of the medical officer's residence, looking a little confused.

Lu Tong's condition was very bad.

At first they thought that Lu Tong was weak and her old illness relapsed. Later, all the medical officers examined her together. Ji Xun and Lin Danqing asked Pei Yunying about the signs of Lu Tong's illness before, and gradually they were sure that Lu Tong was not only physically weak, but also poisonous.

However, due to her long-term experience as a medicine man, the symptoms of various poisons in her body were not obvious. They had no way of knowing what poisons Lu Tong had tried, so they naturally could not prescribe the right medicine.

Lu Tong's pulse was getting weaker day by day. She was occasionally conscious before, but now she was conscious for shorter and shorter periods of time. Compared with the patients in the plague hospital, she was more dangerous, like a flickering candle in an oil lamp, and it was unknown when it would go out.

Shocking.

When she was young, she studied in the Imperial Medical Bureau and ranked among the top in medical science. Even though she failed to win the first place in the spring examination, she was confident and proud, thinking that the medical path was endless, and young people had plenty of time to study one by one in the future. Now, she hated her poor medical skills and could not save her friend.

With a "creak--" sound, the door was pushed open.

Lin Danqing walked into the dormitory.

The dormitory where she and Lu Tong lived originally, now only she was there.

She entered the house, wanting to discuss the new cases she had thought of yesterday with Ji Xunchangjin. With a glance, she saw Lu Tong's medical box on the table in the house.

After going down the mountain, Lu Tong was unconscious, and the medical box was left in the house for safekeeping. Lin Danqing looked at it, and suddenly something moved in her heart, and she walked to the table.

The doctor's medical box is like the examination baskets of candidates and the weapons of soldiers, precious and private. The doctors of the Imperial Academy of Medical Officers have always kept their medical boxes very well. Lin Danqing hesitated for a moment, then reached out and picked up Lu Tong's medical box.

Lu Tong has been a pharmacist for many years. Although he didn't say it, as a doctor, he should know his own body. There might be daily medicines in the medical box. Although this possibility is very small, in a critical situation, he can't care about anything else.

Lin Danqing opened the medical box.

This medical box has been there for a long time, and even the straps of the medical box have been worn out too much and have been repaired layer by layer. It seemed to have been dropped several times, and was somewhat deformed and not quite square. When the lid was opened, there were only a few simple things inside.

Mulberry bark thread, gold wound medicine, coal pen, and several medical books.

Lin Danqing picked up the medical books, all of which were about treating epidemics. They should have been brought by Lu Tong in Shengjing before leaving for southern Jiangsu.

Lin Danqing checked and saw a booklet under the medical books. This booklet had no title, so it should have been written by herself. After thinking about it, she sat down at the table, opened the booklet in her hand, and was startled when she saw the words on the booklet clearly.

"'Sheng Qianshang': Angelica dahurica, Duhuo, Nardostachys grandiflora, Clove, Anxillary..."

"Burn this incense, and the aroma will enter your nose. Your body will become stiff, your mouth will be numb, and you will be unable to move. Your mind will be clear, and you will feel as if you are drunk. It is better than drinking a thousand glasses of strong wine and becoming intoxicated."

This is……

prescription?

Lin Danqing was confused.

She had never heard of this recipe, which was 'more than a thousand cups of wine'. The ingredients and medicinal effects were clearly written in it, and it looked more like Lu Zhu developed a new recipe himself.

She stared and thought for a while, then lowered her head and continued reading.

The second page is still a prescription.

"'Zi Zaiying': Indigo Naturalis, Polygonum Custard, Haijinsha, Xusuizi, Yunshi..."

"The loose foam is odorless. If you inhale a small amount, it will cause unbearable pain and itching in the throat, like being stung by thousands of ants. The toxicity will resolve itself after four hours, and you will not have to worry about your life."

Lin Danqing's hand holding the booklet tightened, and his eyes gradually became serious.

"'Hancanyu: Impatiens, Gelsemium, Cuscuta, Convolvulus, White Coriander..."

"It is red and tastes sour. The cold poison penetrates into the bones within seven days of taking it. Do not go near water. The remaining poison will gradually fade after half a month..."

"Child's worry..."

"Crossing the ant formation..."

Lin Danqing turned over page after page, feeling shocked in his heart.

This book, which is more than half full, is densely packed with unheard-of prescriptions!

No, it's not a prescription, it should be said to be a poison prescription.

None of these prescriptions are used to save people. On the contrary, they all contain serious poisons, but they will not kill people immediately. However, looking at the details and changes in the reactions after taking the poison, the medical records in the library of Hanlin Medical Academy cannot describe such a situation.

It's... it's like someone who took the poison personally recorded it!

Lin Danqing's brain exploded with a buzz.

For a moment, she suddenly remembered a summer afternoon in the medical hospital. She and Lu Chen were sitting in the pharmacy making soup.

The sun was warm and shining on both of them through the grove. At that time, the poison of the aunt's "shooting eyes" had gradually dissipated. She lazily leaned against the wall, looked at the person in front of her, and complained half gratefully and half jealously: "Sister Lu, you are a genius, how come you have so many recipes?"

Lu Yan was sitting in front of the medicine stove, holding a fan to flicker the fire under the stove. Hearing this, he smiled slightly and said, "Just try it a few more times and it will be fine."

Just try it a few more times.

I see.

No wonder Lu Chen has so many prescriptions that come out one after another. No wonder her medical experience is better than the students who have studied in the Imperial Medical Bureau for many years.

Just because of those unexpected recipes, she had tried every one of them herself.

Sheng Qianzhang, Free Warbler, Cold Silkworm Rain, Crossing the Ant Formation...

She experienced every pain personally, and then wrote down the source of these pains in a book without mentioning it to anyone.

The booklet is only half written, maybe she has experienced more.

Lin Danqing covered her mouth and her eyes suddenly turned red.

A piece of paper floated out of the album. She bent down to pick it up, her eyes passing over the paper.

When he saw it clearly, his eyes suddenly froze.

The next moment, Lin Danqing stood up suddenly, took away the album and the pages inside it, and quickly walked out the door.

She pushed open the door and ran out, straight to the next room.

In the room, Ji Xun was picking herbs from the medicine jar, and Pei Yunying was sitting by the couch. He had been staying in front of Lu Yan's bed these past few days, and Duan Xiaoyan refused to leave even after Duan Xiaoyan tried to persuade him several times.

Hearing the movement, the two of them raised their heads.

Lin Danqing walked into the room.

Lu Yan was still lying on the bed, with her eyes closed. She looked very thin, like a small animal in a cave in Sunan City, unable to survive the harsh winter.

"I know what kinds of poisons Lu Chen has been poisoned by."

Ji Xun and Pei Yunying looked at her at the same time.

Lin Danqing handed the booklet to Ji Xun: "I found this in Sister Lu's medical box. The poisonous prescriptions recorded on it should be the ones she has tried in the past. Doctor Ji, with this, at least now we Knowing that Sister Lu has been involved in medical treatment, I have a clue, so it won’t be without purpose.”

Ji Xun took the book and flipped through a few pages, his usually calm expression suddenly turned pale.

Lin Danqing handed the paper to Pei Yunying again.

"Sister Lu has been sick for a long time. It's not the first time in Sunan, but no one knows about it. The time I saw her nosebleed before was also a toxic attack, but she pushed it away and didn't notice it."

Pei Yunying took the page.

The page was very thin, only one. The writing on it was scrawled and simple.

"On the tenth day of February, I had abdominal pain and vomiting, sweating and palpitations, my legs were weak and I couldn't walk. I recovered after half an hour."

"On the ninth day of the sixth lunar month, my limbs felt cold, chills, dull pain, and chest and diaphragm discomfort, which resolved on their own after an hour."

"On September 17th, I felt dizzy and fainted all night."

"November 24th..."

"..."

"On the third day of December, I vomited blood."

The hand holding the page tightened, and the blood drained from Pei Yunying's face.

Above this, records are recorded one by one of the illness cases.

Who is sick and who is in pain is clear and clear.

The time intervals between her attacks became shorter and shorter, but the periods of pain became longer and longer. At first it was half an hour, and then it became a whole night. At first it was sweating and palpitations, but the latest time, it was vomiting blood.

Pei Yunying's eyes fell on the thin piece of paper. The hands that once held the knife but remained motionless in the face of danger were trembling slightly at this moment, as if they could not hold the thin piece of paper.

There is a line of words written on the top of the page.

"On August 12, the forty-second year of Yongchang, I suffered from chest numbness and heartache that lasted all night."

Yongchang forty-two years, August 12th...

He suddenly remembered.

It was the day when he received a report from the military patrol about a murder and burial in Renxin Medical Center.

He knew the other party's disguise and trump card, and wanted to see how she would survive this time. So he came uninvited with the token, watching her calmness and counterattack with interest, surprised by her courage and admired her scheming. She confronted him in the shade of the fragrant osmanthus flowers, with a mocking smile, and won back a beautiful and wonderful game.

He thought at that time, what a powerful woman.

But he didn't know that after he left, she was alone in pain for a whole night.

He knew nothing.

It was as if a hand suddenly grabbed his heart, and in an instant, he felt the same as her, as if he was looking at the lonely and curled up woman in the house across a long time.

It went deep into the bone marrow and hurt his heart.

Lin Danqing saw that he looked different and whispered: "General..."

Pei Yunying lowered his eyes, and his finger bones gradually turned white.

After a long time, he spoke.

"I deserve to die."