Lamp Flower Smile

When the list of people going to Sunan for epidemic relief reached West Street, everyone at Renxin Medical Center was stunned.

Du Changqing rubbed his eyes several times and glared at Lu Yan: "I read that right, why is your name on the roster?"

Lu Yan put the medical kit on the table and spoke in a calm tone, as if he was going out to buy a cup of sweet syrup.

"I'm going to Sunan to provide disaster relief. I'll leave early tomorrow morning."

"That's not right, Xiao Lu," Miao Liangfang walked out of the bed on crutches: "You just entered the Medical Officer's Hospital at the beginning of this year. You didn't even pass the first official examination. You have no experience in epidemic rescue before. Why would the government order you to go to Sunan?"

Du Changqing's eyes flashed: "Is it Pei Yunying?"

"Yesterday you went to the Palace Commander's Mansion for medical treatment. When you come back today, you will go to Jiangsu Province tomorrow." He yelled: "Did that black-hearted man do something to force you to come here? You bastard!"

"I am going to rescue the epidemic, not to die." Lu Yan was speechless, "Besides, this is the arrangement of the Medical Academy."

Miao Liangfang was confused: "The Medical Officer's Hospital shouldn't let you, a new medical officer, accompany you... Is it a mistake?"

Lu Yan was silent for a moment and shook his head: "I am from southern Sunan. Maybe traveling with me can be helpful to them."

When Du Changqing heard this, he rolled his eyes: "I am still from Shengjing, who can I help?" He added: "No, my father told me before that the epidemic has killed countless people, and it is almost like sending someone to death. Yes. I think it’s better to give the medical officer a gift. How much money do they need to remove your name?”

"Shopkeeper Du, I am a medical officer."

"What's wrong with the medical officer? Medical officers are not human beings? Should medical officers rush to die?" Du Changqing was impatient, "Stop talking nonsense about the benevolence of doctors. Without such benevolence, I am a layman, so you can't be a saint. Hurry, collect some money and go to the medical hospital."

Lu Tong remained motionless.

Miao Liangfang sighed.

Acheng huddled in the corner and dared not come out. Yin Zheng stood in front of the felt curtain, her eyes slightly red.

Du Changqing tugged twice but did not move Lu Chen, and became angry: "Can't I help you?" He got angry again, "When you first came to Renxin Medical Center to set up business terms with me last year, why weren't you so kind? ? What kind of Bodhisattva are you pretending to be?”

Lu Yan broke away from his hand and said, "I want to go to Sunan."

The autumn wind is crisp and clear, and the fallen leaves rustle under the plum tree at the door, gathering and scattering.

The shop was silent.

After a while, Du Changqing buried his head and walked to the back bunk seat without saying a word and sat down. He asked angrily: "Do you have to go?"

"yes."

He doesn't speak.

No one else spoke either.

In Renxin Medical Center, no one could stop Lu Zhu from doing what he wanted to do. For example, the spring exam, or going to the Taiyuan Hospital. Once you make up your mind, you will never change it for anyone.

And never stops for anyone.

After a while, Miao Liangfang opened his mouth: "I will write you a prescription."

As if he finally had a backbone, Miao Liangfang whispered: "I have never been to southern Jiangsu, but I have seen people suffering from epidemics before. There are various prescriptions for preventing epidemics in Miaojia Village. I wonder if you can use them." . I’ll write it all down for you, in case you need it?”

"A doctor is a benevolent person." He looked at Lu Huan and sighed: "If I were you, I would also go to Sunan."

Du Changqing was so annoyed that his teeth were sore.

He said: "Mother-in-law, I'm going to the medical clinic to ask what to bring to the epidemic area!" He turned around and left.

In fact, everyone is well aware that the list of medical officials has been approved and written in black and white. How can it be changed by giving some money? It's just that the news came too suddenly and the schedule was very hasty, so it was hard for everyone to accept it.

Without further ado, Acheng and Du Changqing rushed to the medical clinic immediately. Miao Liangfang leaned on the desk and started writing down the medical prescriptions in his memory for Lu Zhu.

Lu Yan opened the felt curtain and went back to the yard to pack his clothes, and Yin Zheng followed him.

Yin Zheng stood at the door, watching Lu Zhuo folding his clothes one by one, and suddenly said: "Girl, I'll go with you."

Lu Chen turned around.

Yin Zheng walked into the room, her voice choked with sobs, "I'm also from South Sunan, I can help you..."

She didn't know what happened, but before that, whether she went to the medical hospital or Qi's house, she was always in Shengjing.

Sunan is different.

Thousands of miles away, and the plague was rampant, she had never been separated from Lu Zhuo for such a long time, which always gave her a sense of panic, fearing that Lu Zhuo would not come back in the future.

Lu Chen looked at her and shook his head slightly.

"There is a procession of medical officers accompanying the Medical Officer's Hospital. You can't get in."

"I can follow you secretly! Follow you from a distance."

"It's too dangerous, and I have to be distracted from taking care of you."

"girl……"

Lu Zhuo walked up to her.

"Why go back to Sunan?" she said, "Now that you have walked out, don't look back."

Yin Zheng froze and raised his eyes to look at the person in front of him.

Lu Yan stood in front of her with bright black eyes. Those eyes were always calm and indifferent, but when she stared at them, they always made people feel at ease for no reason, as if even big things were not worth mentioning in front of her.

Just like when we first met.

After a while, Yin Zheng asked: "Girl, do you still remember the first time we met?"

Before Lu Yan could answer, she spoke softly: "I still remember."

She was seriously ill and the pain all over her body was unbearable. The madam asked someone to roll her up in a roll of mat and throw her to the mass grave at Luomeimeifeng.

She cried and grabbed the hem of the bustard's skirt: "Godmother, godmother, don't leave me, take some medicine, take some medicine and I will get better -"

Kicked away by the bustard.

"What a fart!" The madam pointed at her nose and cursed: "You don't have to spend money to buy medicine! Open your eyes and see clearly, this is a flower building, not a Ji Shan Tang. I have raised you for so long, and you got sick so early. , lose money!”

After finishing speaking, he covered his mouth and nose as if he was disgusted by something dirty, and urged the servants: "What are you doing standing still? Take it away quickly!"

And she was carried up to the mountain.

Yin Zheng remembered clearly that it was a cold rainy night, the mountain road was muddy and the wind was desolate.

She was lying alone in a mass grave, with the rain hitting her face. She didn't even have the strength to move, and her eyes were full of despair.

This life is miserable, living like a bush, and dying in a helter-skelter manner. In the life of an ordinary person, one cannot get even a shred of dignity.

The night sky in the mountains is like an endless mouth, greedily devouring the only life in the world. In this gray coldness, she saw a ray of light.

A faint, hurried light in the rainy night.

She suspected that this was a hallucination before her death, but she felt that the hallucination was very real. A man carrying a basket on his back came to the mass grave, walking around and picking up something.

The light came to her, and a hand touched her cheek.

The cold and soft hand touched her neck silently, but the movement was very gentle, and then he brushed the messy long hair out of her eyes.

Yin Zheng saw a face.

The face of a young girl was pale and beautiful. Under the bamboo hat, a pair of eyes as dark as the plum blossoms at night, shining brightly in the rainy night, looked at her with a frown.

Yin Zheng opened her mouth, but she was too weak to say a word.

"Do not talk."

The girl seemed to understand something, put down her backpack, stood up, grabbed Yin Zheng's hand, and carried her on her back.

"I'll save you," she said.

I save you.

Three words, like a lantern on a rainy night, were life-saving straws. She held on tightly and never dared to let go.

Crickets were humming in the flowers under the window, and Yin Zheng was lost in thought for a while. When he came back to his senses, there were tears in his eyes, and he smiled and said: "I thought I was dead at that time, and I didn't expect to meet a girl."

She loved poetry and painting, but she fell into a dirty and dirty place in the world. However, after seeing all the dirty and ugly faces, she met the most sincere and beautiful person in the world.

It was the only time she was lucky in this unfortunate life, and perhaps the only time God showed mercy to her.

Lu Yan said: "It's all over."

Yin Zheng was silent.

Everything has passed, Sunan is in the past, and so are the bad memories. She has been peaceful in West Street for too long. When she looked back, she realized that Shengjing was so far away from Sunan.

"Stay on West Street." Lu Yan said, "It's very good here."

She is a rootless flower, swaying at will. She finally finds a corner here and is reluctant to let go.

"You'll come back, right?" Yin Zheng asked.

Lu Yan looked out the window and saw that the plum tree was still in bloom. She said, "After I leave, take good care of this plum tree for me."

Her eyes glanced at the damp soil under the plum tree, but she did not answer Yin Zheng's question.

Yin Zheng was silent for a moment.

"Girl, I actually have a sister."

She said: "My father sold my sister and I into a flower house to pay off gambling debts. My sister and I were caught trying to escape, but she didn't make it through and was beaten to death. I stayed."

"When I see you, I always think of her. It was me who failed to protect her."

"I know that the girl is eager for revenge. For the girl, there is nothing more important in the world than revenge. But if I were your sister, I would only feel sad to see you like this."

Yin Zheng sighed: "You should think more about yourself."

Lu Yan said: "I know."

"Master Xiao Pei, if you like him, just stay with him. If you don't like him, forget it. Don't embarrass yourself."

Lu Chen said "hmm".

"Girl," Yinzheng looked at her finally, "I'm waiting for you here. You must come back."

With a thousand words to say goodbye, Lu Yan was silent for a while and nodded: "Okay."

…

The day passed in a hurry.

Because the news came suddenly, everyone prepared things hastily. Lu Chen returned to the Medical Officer's Hospital in the evening, and set out with the convoy of the Medical Officer's Hospital early the next morning.

It was dawn one night, and when Lu Zhuo got up early the next morning, Lin Danqing was already sitting at the door drinking porridge.

"I don't know how long I'll have to wait for the next time I get the vegetarian porridge from the Medical Officer's Hospital." She raised her hand and handed a bowl to Lu Zhuo, "Try it."

Lu Chen took it.

Lin Danqing is also going to Sunan.

Lu Yan was also surprised when she heard that Lin Danqing was on the list of medical officers. She didn't know how she persuaded Lin's father.

"What's so difficult to convince?" Lin Danqing said nonchalantly: "I took the initiative and told him that going to southern Jiangsu was a good opportunity to make meritorious deeds. He had to go up one level at a time according to the official assessment, and wait until he was admitted. How long will it take to become an imperial doctor, let alone become a hospital envoy? It is different to go to southern Jiangsu to treat the epidemic. After the epidemic is completed, the reward can be exempted from the third-level official examination. "

"Wealth is sought in danger, and besides, it was not him who took the risk. After hearing this, he pretended to be worried for a while, and then he readily agreed!"

Lu Chen asked: "What should you do with your aunt?"

"The poison of 'shooting eyes' has been cured, and my aunt no longer needs anyone to take care of her. Besides, I am a good doctor, and she also wants me to go out and prove myself."

It was easy for her to say it, but Lu Yan knew that the process would not be easy. However, Lin Danqing did not want to say more, so she did not ask any more questions.

After the two finished their porridge, they got up and set off. Chang Jin was already waiting at the door.

Most of the people who went to southern Jiangsu were old medical officers with experience in epidemic relief. Among the new medical officers, there were only two people, Lin Danqing and Lu Zhuo. In addition, Ji Xun is also there.

"I heard that he also took the initiative to ask to be added to the epidemic relief list, and the Medical Office attaches great importance to this." Lin Danqing whispered to her, "Yes, he has excellent medical skills, and he may have more ideas than those old medical officers. We have With him accompanying us, the epidemic response will be much safer.”

Lu Zhuo nodded.

Chang Jin checked the people on the roster and took the medical officer to accompany the convoy. There were also some people from the Imperial Medicine Hospital in the convoy, and Lu Zhu saw Shi Changpu among them. Seeing Lu Chen, Shi Changpu even said hello to her.

In the early morning of autumn, the morning dew is still shining. There was grass on both sides of the city gate, and a group of southern geese flew by. In the distant sound of geese, the wheels of the motorcade drove past.

"etc--"

Suddenly, a familiar voice came. Lu Zhen, who was sitting in the carriage, was moved in his heart and opened the curtain.

Someone ran after the carriage.

It was Yin Zheng, Acheng and Du Changqing. Miao Liangfang was at the end, walking as fast as he could on crutches.

The carriage stopped, Chang Jin said a few words to the escort outside, and motioned for Lu Zhu to get out of the car. Lu Zhen got off the carriage, and several people stood panting in front of her.

"I almost didn't make it." Du Changqing thrust a huge bundle into Lu Zhu's hand, "Save some food."

The heavy bag is full of food.

Miao Liangfang took out a thick envelope from his arms: "I was in a hurry yesterday. You had to go back to the medical hospital. I thought of a few prescriptions at night and wrote them down quickly. Take it with you in case you need it in southern Jiangsu. superior."

There were two dark circles under his eyes, and he looked sleepy, as if he was exhausted after a hard night's sleep.

Lu Zhuo took the prescription and asked: "The medical official hospital does not allow relatives to see off, how did you get here?"

To avoid causing trouble, the accompanying convoy set off early in the morning and family members were not allowed to visit, but these people caught up with him.

Yin Zheng said: "Originally I just said that I would come to the city gate to try my luck, and I was not allowed to talk. I happened to meet Mr. Pei passing by on official business, so I talked to him and let him go."

Pei Yunying?

Lu Tong was startled.

Acheng smiled and pointed into the distance: "You haven't left yet, that's right."

Lu Chen followed his finger and looked at it.

In late autumn, the golden breeze blows, and on the mottled brown brick wall, a crimson figure stands high on the tower, bright and dazzling in the autumn morning light.

The sunlight shines on the young man's handsome and sharp features. He is at a high place and she is downstairs. Where their eyes meet, they are like smoke and sunlight, floating silently.

He didn't say anything, just looked at her calmly and calmly.

Chang Jin urged him behind him, and Lu Zhuo looked away, hugging the baggage and letter, saying goodbye to a few people briefly, and hurriedly got into the carriage.

After the carriage had walked for a while, Lu Zhuo thought for a while, opened the curtain and looked back.

The tall buildings are far away, the sun is shining on the city wall, and under the golden sun, the crimson shadow has disappeared.

He has left.

…

Under the city tower, the wind is clear and the wilderness is vast.

Xiao Zhufeng asked the person beside him: "What's the point of asking them to send me one more time?"

It was really speechless to go to West Street early in the morning to pick someone up just to see him off.

"Tie."

Pei Yunying said: "When there is a tie, people will want to live."

"Then why don't you say goodbye? Are you not qualified enough to be her tie?"

Pei Yunying sighed, ignored him, and walked forward.

After being on duty all night, he planned to go home and change clothes. As soon as he arrived at the door, he saw Pei Yunshu coming out of the door next door.

Seeing him, Pei Yunshu looked happy.

"A Ying, you came back just in time. I just heard someone said that Dr. Lu went to southern Jiangsu to rescue the epidemic. Is this true? Why was there no news at all before? It's not that all the rescuers are old medical officers, she is the only one For a young girl who has only been admitted to the medical hospital for less than a year, isn't it dangerous to go to Southern Jiangsu? "

Pei Yunying entered the room, and Pei Yunshu chased after him: "Did you listen to me?"

Pei Yunying took off his waist knife, loosened his collar, took a deep breath, and said to her: "Sister, Lu Zhuo is going there on his own."

"But……"

"Neither you nor I can choose for her."

He made a strong move, and Pei Yunshu was stunned for a moment.

"I'm just worried..." She fell silent again after catching a glimpse of the young man's eyes.

There was a moment of silence in the room.

A gust of wind blew, and the sound of ringing bells suddenly came from the courtyard, light and crisp.

Pei Yunshu was confused, looked at the sound, and couldn't help but be startled.

The courtyard of Pei Yunying's mansion was always deserted, so much so that Duan Xiaoyan often joked that it was a good place to practice sword practice.

However, in the flower garden right now, I don’t know when large tracts of hibiscus were planted.

The hibiscus has bloomed, like white frost or red clouds. Planted in the garden, the autumn light is gorgeous.

The sparse branches and dense leaves are dotted with thin red silk, which is studded with golden bells and tied to the flower tips. As the wind moves, the golden bell rings crisply.

Pei Yunshu was stunned: "Flowers with golden bells?"

It is recorded in the book that there was a royal family with "good vocals and music, and a lot of romance, and all the kings were like them. In the spring, red silk was sewn into a rope in the back garden, densely decorated with golden bells, and tied to the flower tips. Every time there were birds and magpies, When Xiang gathers, ask the garden officials to ring the bells to scare them. This is why all the palaces are affected."

Pei Yunying had never been fond of flowers and trees, and the palace was solemn and simple. Pei Yunshu didn't know when he would imitate his predecessors and become a "flower protector".

Obviously, during the last Chinese Valentine's Day, this place was still deserted.

It can be used as a "flower-protecting bell" and is a "flower-cherishing person".

When did he take pity on the flowers and grass?

"Why did you suddenly fall in love with Hibiscus?" She was puzzled.

"Is it not good?"

He faintly chanted: "There is a girl riding with me, her face is like Shunhua. The general will soar and fly, wearing jade and Qiongju. She is beautiful, Meng Jiang, and both are beautiful...

There is a female companion, who looks like Shunying. The generals will soar and fly, and the generals will wear jade. Meng Jiang is beautiful and his virtues are unforgettable. "

The tone was light and carefree, like a young man who had just returned from an outing by the lake, and every word was touching.

Pei Yunshu was at a loss for a moment, looking at the flowers and trees in front of her, and subconsciously said: "But hibiscus is a wild flower, why does it need a flower bell? The flower will wither in a day and night, and it will only be brilliant for one day. Why not plant some peonies and roses? Hibiscus will not bloom for you."

Pei Yunying lowered his head and smiled.

"Of course you have to protect it."

He looked at the hibiscus in front of him: "The wind will blow it, the rain will hit it, the summer will be harsh, and the snow will be cold. Birds will peck at it, and there will be people picking flowers outside the garden."

"I appreciate the flowers I love, so of course I have to protect them. I am willing to be a flower protector for my whole life. It doesn't matter whether it blooms for me or not. As long as the flowers bloom well, what's wrong with being a flower protector for a lifetime?"

His voice was flat, but like a heavy drum, which surprised Pei Yunshu. She suddenly understood something and looked at Pei Yunying.

In the flowery clouds, the bright autumn light illuminated the handsome eyebrows of the young man. The beauty fell into his eyes. Pei Yunying looked at it and spoke calmly.

"I want to protect her."

"But she refused my protection."

He said: "She doesn't need my protection."