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After diagnosing Bian Qingyu's pulse, Hua Qiongsheng didn't rest for a moment, packed up the tools for going down the mountain to collect medicine, and set off immediately. Before leaving, Mr. Qi's laughter came from behind, "Master Hua Gu, this is a rare encounter in hundreds of years." Seeing intractable diseases at first glance, so positive? I haven’t seen Gu Zhu with such high fighting spirit for a long time!”

Hua Qiongsheng didn't forget to turn around and taunt in his busy schedule, "Mr. Qi, go read your book, you will know how to make fun of me!"

The mountain is steep and soaring into the clouds. There is even unmelted snow on the top of the mountain, but the foot of the mountain is warm and warm. The climate difference between the sunny side and the shady side is also great, so there are countless types of medicinal materials.

This time picking herbs, Hua Qiongsheng finally replaced her "baby wedding dress" which was too complicated to move. Instead, she wore a bamboo hat, a short-sleeved jacket with half-arms, long trousers, cloth shoes, a belt, and a bamboo basket on her back. , took a hoe and sickle, a shovel shovel, a medicine fork, etc., and just went down the mountain dressed in ashes.

Hua Qiongsheng originally planned to pick some heart-replenishing herbs, preferably those that don't need to be processed, so that fresh ones are more effective, but unfortunately, after going around, the baskets were not half full of the Chinese medicines they picked, and many Chinese herbal medicines hadn't been filled yet. Catch up with the vigorous and mature season, these few days are still cold and cold.

The bottoms of the cloth shoes were stained with dust, and the undernails were covered with yellow mud. After going down the mountain, she was sweating all over. Hua Qiongsheng touched the sweat on her forehead with her hands, and she loosened the tie that was fastened to her chin. Feeling that there is no panic around the neck, he raised his head to look at the sky, and adjusted the bamboo basket behind his back to a comfortable position for carrying on his back. Hua Qiongsheng was about to walk up, when suddenly a black figure broke into his sight——

"Yang Hanxue?!"

Hearing this, Yang Qi turned around and met Hua Qiongsheng's gaze. Out of politeness, Yang Qi took the initiative to take a few steps, "Master Hua Gu."

With a smile on the corner of Hua Qiongsheng's mouth, his eyes fell on the book in the opponent's hand again, and he could vaguely see the pattern on it, "What are you holding in your hand are medical skills?"

Yang Qi was taken aback, then replied: "Yes."

If you say that Yushan is not big or small, it is a coincidence that the two met. After all, Yushan in early spring is the only area where those cold-resistant plants can barely grow.The maze is only at the foot of the mountain, and Yang Qi has already entered the formation, so he is not afraid of getting lost.

Hua Qiongsheng saw that Yang Qi didn't have as many tools as herself, the only thing in her hand was a book, she thought for a while and asked: "So you are identifying herbs?"

Yang Qi: "Yes."

Hua Qiongsheng quickly said: "It's half the effort for you to do this. What's the use of just looking at the appearance of these herbs from a distance? We have some herbs in Yushan, which are said to be unavailable in other places in the rivers and lakes. You might as well pick them up." Next, take it back to Qiongguang Valley and study it carefully."

Yang Qi finally stopped cherishing words like gold this time, "Thank you, Master Gu, for your understanding. Actually, I have thought about it, but considering that these are medicinal materials carefully cultivated by Qiongguang Valley, they are very valuable, and some of them are even hard to find. , after all, it still feels wrong.”

Hua Qiongsheng asked again: "You can tell that I cultivated it specially, do you know the art of Qihuang?"

Yang Qi nodded, "Slightly clear."

"Slight understanding?" Hua Qiongsheng suddenly became interested, "Then let me ask you, have you read "The Coffin", "Plain Questions", and "Treatise on Febrile Diseases"?"

"Seen."

"What about "The Classic of Difficulties", "Synopsis of the Golden Chamber", and "Shen Nong's Materia Medica"?" Hua Qiongsheng continued to ask.

"Seen."

"Then "Shanghan Shuoyi", "Shanghan Xuanjie", "Golden Chamber Xuanjie", have you read it?"

"I've seen it too."

Hua Qiongsheng couldn't help being surprised and said: "You are also called Luetong? You are more powerful than many of our disciples in Qiongguang Valley!"

Yang Qi was unfazed by favor or humiliation, "The owner of the valley is too famous."

Hua Qiongsheng said with a smile: "I cherish talents. Since you are dedicated to studying medicine, then I will pick the medicinal materials from Yushan as you like. If you want to take them, you can take them away, and I will not charge you."

Yang Qi was really stunned when he heard this, and it took him a long time to react, his tone finally brought some emotion, he bowed his head and bowed to thank, "Thank you, Guzhu."

Hua Qiongsheng was amused by Yang Qi's earnest thanks, and quickly waved his hands, "Don't, don't be like this, it's not such a precious Chinese medicine, it's really hard to find Chinese medicine, I secretly transplanted it to Qiongguangguli Medical Center a long time ago The backyard! These herbs are planted in Yushan and grow under the blue sky and white sun. To put it bluntly, aren’t they just waiting for someone to steal them?”

Yang Qi was still persistent and said, "Thank you, Valley Master, for the gift."

Seeing his stubbornness, Hua Qiongsheng had no choice but to stop discussing this topic. She suddenly thought of something, "By the way, since you know some medical skills, I want to ask you some things, which can be regarded as brainstorming. I just helped After your vice owner's pulse diagnosis, Mr. Qi and I discussed it for a long time, but we didn't come to a consistent result."

Yang Qi said seriously: "Master Gu, please tell me."

Hua Qiong thought to himself, since they are all inside Wuwei Villa, if they ask Yang Qi, it doesn't mean they haven't kept secrets for the deputy owner, right?

So she asked, "The deputy owner of Wuwei Villa, Mr. Qin Yu, said that he was accidentally ambushed in Beishuo. Do you know some inside information? For example, what sect are those people? They usually make and use poison What are your habits?"

Yang Qi was calm on the surface, but his heart skipped a beat. Now he only knew that the deputy owner was Bian Qingyu in disguise, and he didn't know anything else. Therefore, he would never know how Bian Qingyu described to Hua Qiongsheng when he was poisoned The situation, now Yang Qi only understands that what he says is wrong.

Thinking of this, Yang Qi said: "I didn't follow Beishuo and his party, so I don't know much about it. I'm afraid I can't explain the confusion to Guzhu."

"It's all right." This result is not surprising to Hua Qiongsheng. After all, the shadow guard probably doesn't know anything about things that even the deputy owner doesn't know. book, then you have heard of—”

Hua Qiongsheng purposely bit these seven words very clearly, "Poison of spring and heart-linking Gu?"

As soon as the words fell, Yang Qi's pupils constricted suddenly, and he subconsciously raised his head to look at Hua Qiongsheng, then he immediately lowered his head to cover up his gaffe, lowered his eyebrows, so that people couldn't see clearly the bottom of his eyes, but suddenly there was a long time With a lingering look, "...I haven't heard of it."

A few wisps of thin clouds roll slightly, it is a clear sky and good weather.

"Xiao Shi!" Fu Bamao hid in the corner outside the medical hall, sneaking around, looking ahead, then turned around and whispered to Lu Shi beside him, "Do you think that Yang Qi recently Are you very close to the owner of the valley?"

"Yes, yes!" Lu Shi couldn't stop chewing the candied fruit in his mouth, and he was unwilling to keep quiet, he hurriedly echoed, and then he suddenly remembered his experience of saying something wrong, and lowered his voice and said to Fu Ba, "But this But don’t tell brother Jiu—”

"Ahem." A familiar throat clearing voice suddenly came from behind.

"...see you." Lu Shi turned around in embarrassment and smiled guiltily.

Fu Ba also followed Lu Shi with a smug smile.

Lu Jiu said helplessly: "Don't act like you are trembling and afraid to speak. If you don't know, you may think that I am a murderous big devil." After a pause, he continued, "I happen to have something to think about. Let me ask you, let's go to the courtyard where there is no one, shall we go?"

Lu Jiu took half a step and found that the two people were still in a daze. It seemed that they were in a dilemma. He was very puzzled, "Aren't you going?"

Lu Shi chewed the dried fruit and said, puffing up his cheeks, "Let's go."

Fu Ba nodded, "Let's go!"

The moment Lu Jiu turned his head back, the scene he just caught a glimpse of just now appeared in front of his eyes, which were Yang Qi and Hua Qiongsheng.Said it was unintentional, but in fact it was subconscious, or intentional, right?

Thinking of this, the leisurely and contented look on Lu Jiu's face disappeared a bit, replaced by a faint glint of sadness in his eyes.

After all, I still couldn't hold back, couldn't hold back from watching, Lu Jiu thought a little self-deprecatingly.

There are only a few sweeping servants in the courtyard, using reed brooms to clean up the unmelted frost and snow.

The three sat around a round marble table.

"Recently, I have the task of shadow guard, and I have to find time to complete the penalty copy. I am really busy. I finally squeezed out some time today. Actually, I have always wanted to ask you two, that night I..." Lu Jiu turned his head uncomfortably, his eyes drifted away, "Did Yang Qi hear anything that I said indiscriminately that night when I was so drunk and unconscious?"

Fu Ba: "No!"

Lu Shi: "Yes?"

The expressions of the two changed slightly, they looked at each other, and then turned their heads to look at Lu Jiu——

Fu Ba: "Actually, there are."

Lu Shi: "No!"

Lu Jiu: "..."

Lu Jiu was very helpless, "You don't have to take care of my emotions like this. I just want to know what happened that night, so you can just talk about it. In fact, I just want to, that night, from the time you found me to the day when you killed me What happened during the time I brought back to Zhulin Xiaozhu?"

"We found you in the Nanfeng Pavilion. When Yang Qi and I arrived, you were surrounded by two handsome young men. You held one of them with one hand, and lifted the white jade jug with the other. , pour wine into your mouth and drink..."

Lu Jiu almost jumped up, but fortunately, Fu Ba held his shoulders in time, and he exclaimed in disbelief, "Snuggle?! Hug?!"

Lu Shi replied hesitantly: "Yes, I'm sure I read it right. At that time, I was shocked by the scene in front of me, so I took a few more glances, especially Brother Jiu's hand on the young man's waist... ..."

The veins on Lu Jiu's forehead were throbbing. After a long time, he regretted his mistake and said to the two people beside him earnestly, "Listen to your grandfather's advice. Drunkenness hurts people, really! If you don't listen to the old man, you will suffer in front of your eyes!"

Seeing that Lu Jiu was still in the mood to joke, Fu Ba and Lu Shi felt a little relieved.

Lu Jiu asked again, "Then what happened afterwards?" After he finished speaking, he thought for a while, but still reluctantly added, "Yang Qi...he, did he react when he saw me like this?"

Fu Ba looked puzzled, "Seventh Brother, you know, he has a face like ice cubes. I paid special attention to Seventh Brother's reaction, but Seventh Brother didn't respond at all. He was expressionless all the way!"

Hearing this, Lu Jiu's eyes flickered a few times. For a moment, complicated feelings rushed into his heart, but he couldn't tell for a while, whether he was temporarily relieved or vaguely disappointed, "Then what happened next?"

Lu Shi frowned, and said hesitantly: "In fact, nothing happened afterwards, we just paid for the wine for you and took you out of the Nanfeng Pavilion. You were insane at the time, how dare I let Brother Qi take you back So Myna and I took the initiative to invite Ying, and Yang Qi walked beside us. In the end, I couldn't hold you back, so I asked Yang Qi to replace me..."

Lu Jiu murmured: "Yang Qi...does he still carry me for a while?"

Lu Shi nodded, "Yes."

Lu Jiu shook his head, dispelling the distracting thoughts in his mind, "Go on."

Lu Shi continued: "Brother Jiu, you were very drunk and talked a lot..."

Lu Jiu frowned, and hurriedly asked, "What did I say?"

Lu Shi suddenly fell silent.

"Probably just some words, to forget the past and look forward to the future." Seeing that Lu Shi was speechless, Fu Ba could only stammer and speak vaguely, and then he quickly comforted Lu Jiu who was clearly on the verge of collapse, "Little Jiu, Don't worry too much, you were slurred at that time, only we who know the inside story can understand what you are talking about, Brother Qi probably doesn't know what you are talking about."

Lu Jiu: "..."

Lu Jiu simply asked, "Did I say that I should completely forget about Yang Hanxue's words?"

Fu Ba was suddenly silent when he heard the words, but he and Lu Shi looked at each other in blank dismay. The two of them seemed to have their lips glued to each other by coincidence, and they didn't say a word.

Lu Jiu pulled the corner of his mouth reluctantly, as if he was going to laugh, but he didn't laugh in the end. He lowered his eyes and said, "It's exactly as I thought, no wonder he has been avoiding me these days."

Fu Ba and Lu Shi couldn't help looking at Lu Jiu when they heard the words. The latter was about to say something to comfort Lu Jiu, but Lu Jiu seemed to be aware of it, and interrupted him first——

"This matter will rot in the stomachs of the three of us from now on, and no one is allowed to mention it again."

The two agreed upon hearing the words, and looked at Lu Jiu hesitantly.

Pulling the corner of her mouth, this time Lu Jiu finally squeezed out a smile, "You don't have to do this, I've already let go."

Lu Jiu repeated it in a low voice, as if to convince himself, "I really let go, really."