Lamp Flower Smile

It started to rain during the night.

The rain is pattering, hitting the newly planted banana leaves in the small courtyard with a bleak sound.

Lu Zhen had a dream.

In the dream, she returned to the Lu family's house in Changwu County. It was the twelfth lunar month, approaching the end of the year, and it was windy and snowy. Lu Rou walked out of the house.

The eldest sister clearly still looks like a girl, but she has her hair combed like a woman's, and wears a plum-green velvet embroidered jacket. She is as pretty and gentle as ever.

When Lu Rou saw her, she stretched out her hand to take Lu Zhu's hand, and said angrily: "Where did you go, girl? Mom called at home for a long time but there was no answer. Dad found out and said something to you again. Wait. There will be red letters next, Lu Qian is writing, come and change your clothes."

She was confused and obediently led by Lu Rou towards the house. She heard Lu Rou whisper from the front: "It's been a long time since you've been gone. Over the years, my sister has been keeping that hairpin for you. The loss is back..."

hairpin?

What hairpin?

Why did Lu Rou say she had been gone for many years? Where had she gone?

As if a thunder exploded in his ears, Lu Yan suddenly opened his eyes.

The lights in the house were dimly lit, and in the dark sky, there was only the trickling of rain.

She slowly sat up from the bed, unable to fall asleep again, so she just stared at the yellow light silently until dawn.

Waiting until dawn, Yin Zheng also got up. The two opened the door of the medical clinic, and not long after, Du Changqing and Acheng arrived.

As spring came to an end and it rained several times in succession, fewer people came to buy herbal tea. It was early in the morning and the shop was a little deserted.

Du Changqing made a pot of hot tea and ordered Acheng to buy two hot cakes for breakfast.

Lu Yan walked up to him and said, "Shopkeeper Du, I would like to borrow some money from you."

Du Changqing almost choked in his throat after taking a mouthful of pancake. He finally swallowed the pancake and then looked at Lu Yan: "What did you say?"

"I want to borrow some money from Shopkeeper Du." Lu Yan said, "I owe you a contract and I will pay you back in a few days."

Du Changqing looked her up and down, snorted, and walked past her. After a while, he took out a key from under the medicine cabinet, pulled out a box from somewhere and handed it to Lu Zhuo.

Yin Zheng looked at the box and asked tentatively: "This is..."

Du Changqing said angrily: "Even if I passed it a few days ago, in the past two months, Chun Shuisheng has made a net profit of two hundred taels of silver, excluding materials. Doctor Lu, although your monthly payment is two hundred taels of silver, I am not taking advantage of it." You are a cheap person, and you taught that old bastard Bai Shouyi a lesson for me, and I appreciate it very much. These one hundred taels are your share." He looked away from the box with difficulty, as if he was heartbroken. , "There is no need to give me any debt. If you make a few more herbal teas like this in the future, it will be considered a reward."

Lu Zhuo was surprised. This man usually cared about money, but he didn't expect that he was so happy at this time. No wonder he could lose all his wealth.

She looked at Du Changqing: "Thank you very much."

Du Changqing waved his hand and continued eating the pancake.

Yin Zheng breathed a sigh of relief.

Xu was missing a hundred taels of silver for no reason. Although he pretended to be happy on the surface, he was still feeling uncomfortable in his heart. Du Changqing was very depressed that day. In the evening, before it got dark, I took Acheng back first.

Yin Zheng closed the door and returned to the small courtyard behind the medicine shop. Lu Zhuo had already changed his clothes.

The clothes were a half-worn taupe gray plain jacket, men's style, which Yin Zheng had collected from a woman selling second-hand clothes at the entrance of the temple. Lu Yan pulled her long hair into a man's bun, which was only loosely tied with a bamboo hairpin. She was born delicate and charming, so dressing up like a man made her appear fairer and more beautiful, and she could tell who she was as a woman at a glance.

Yin Zheng shook his head and said with a smile: "You still have to apply powder to cover it up."

I smeared on some makeup randomly, but the sky was almost completely dark. When Yin Zheng saw that the door of the shop outside had been hung with a piece of straw at some point, she said to Lu Zhuo, "Girl, you can go."

Lu Zhuo nodded, picked up the bamboo umbrella standing in the corner, and went out with Yin Zheng.

…

The spring rain is cold and cold, and it always seems like someone is leaving and weeping.

The south of the city is very lively.

Under the Luoyue Bridge, the painted boats and drums are whistling and coming and going incessantly. Hundreds of horn lamps are tied to the bridge railings, like dots of silver beads, illuminating the river surface brightly.

Turning around the entrance of the square, there is Qinghe Street. Because it is located in the middle of the square, this street is full of teahouses, wine shops, gambling houses and flower houses. dignitaries and the descendants of noble families often drink here, or drink and watch flowers. On a clear night, there are fireworks covering the sky, and the lights everywhere are like daylight, creating a peaceful and peaceful scene.

It's the same tonight.

A carriage stopped in front of Yuxian Tower.

A young man got out of the carriage and was wearing a gold-woven satin jacket. His face was as beautiful as jade. He stood upright, without holding an umbrella, and walked into the restaurant in the gentle breeze and drizzle.

There was a lot of excitement in Yuxian Tower. Wine and embroidered ribbons are everywhere, and the shadows are blown by the fragrant wind. The scent of rouge mixed with the scent of wine on the girls' bodies warmed the lonely rainy night and made it no longer chilly. In the flower hall on the first floor, there are children from the Liyuan Garden singing "Dian Crimson Lips".

It is quite a gentle and wealthy place.

The handsome young man entered the building, and a beauty with red makeup saw that he was dressed in brocade and had outstanding appearance, so she walked toward him and reached out to take the young man's hand, but was pulled by her friend beside her. Whisper a reminder: "Don't go."

The beauty was startled, and as she hesitated, she realized that the person in front of her had already passed by her, and she didn't even glance at her out of the corner of her eye.

She bit her lip, unwilling to give in, when she suddenly saw the young man walking into the upstairs seating area, and her expression changed involuntarily.

Upstairs... is where only distinguished guests can go.

She hurriedly took her friend's arm and turned around in a hurry.

In the upstairs seating area, agarwood incense burns in a warm jade plum blossom incense burner.

The fragrance is rich and fragrant, making the moonlit cloud gauze tent even more elegant.

The room is elegantly decorated, with a green jade and bamboo bonsai placed in front of the table. The chrysanthemum petal jade tea cup contains fresh cloud tea, and the newly picked lychees are served in the sapphire blue enamel fruit plate, which is just right and bright.

The young man had a casual attitude, sitting by the window, and opened the bamboo curtain in front of the window.

From here, you can have a panoramic view of the entire Qinghe Street lights. The night rain was falling, breaking into hazy yellow and cold threads under the lantern, and a gap of hazy yellow slipped in, making the young man's facial features more delicate and dazzling.

He tilted his head casually, looking at it, and his eyes suddenly stopped.

It's late at night and it's lightly raining. The palace lanterns under the eaves are bright and dim. Two people are closing their umbrellas in front of the bustling gate across the street. One of them had his hair tied up in a bun, and his features were blurred by the lights, leaving only a pair of deep pupils, as if filled with a thin layer of coldness in the long night.

Pei Yunying's eyebrows twitched.

Lu Tong?

This man's features and eyes looked very similar to the Doctor Lu whom he met downstairs in Baoxiang last time.

He looked at the person under the lamp and felt something strange in his heart.

Pei Yunying was deeply impressed by Lu Zhu.

Because he was on errands, he would inevitably encounter critical moments where the sword had no eyes, and he had seen many women. Only that Lu Huan was extraordinarily different from other women.

She was born very beautiful, with eyes like autumn water and temples like clouds, a weak willow supporting the wind, and extremely timid. She looked like a delicate flower that could be broken by a gust of wind, but she was more vicious than anyone else.

Pei Yunying had seen Lu Dashan's face, and the sharp marks on his cheeks were deep enough to show the bones. If he guessed correctly, Lu Zhuo was looking at Lu Dashan's eyes at that time.

She originally wanted to blind Lu Dashan's eyes.

Pei Yunying lowered his eyes.

When an ordinary woman is kidnapped, her first reaction would not be to blind the assassin's eyes with velvet flowers.

Ordinary women's hairpins are not as sharp as a knife.

Those three silver needles are not flower hairpins, they are clearly hidden weapons.

The rouge shop was filled with sweet fragrance, and in front of a large screen, hibiscus bloomed brilliantly. The woman's eyes were calm and almost indifferent, just like when she was kidnapped by Lu Dashan and escaped, from the beginning to the end, she was not at a loss -

Someone beside him called out: "Hongman has met His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Pei Yunying took back her thoughts and looked at the person.

She is a young woman with a double-ringed fairy bun. Her red and golden begonia flower-tailed skirt makes her skin as pale as snow. She also has a face full of charm, and she looks charming just standing there.

The girl Hongman in Yuxian Tower is so beautiful and charming that it is difficult to chase away the beauty. How many princes and grandsons spend a lot of money just to win a beauty. Now the beauty is standing in the room, facing the young man sitting and drinking tea, her expression is rare for others to be respectful, and she seems to have a hint of fear.

Hongman took out a letter from his sleeve, took two steps forward, presented it to Pei Yunying, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty has sent his men to Dingzhou to look for people in the military and horse prison case. Now the right minister is involved and it is inconvenient to act. Your Majesty, please Your Majesty, please wait and see what happens."

Pei Yunying said "hmm" and reached out to take the letter.

Hongman stepped aside and waited respectfully with his head lowered.

Pei Yunying quickly read the letter, burned it in front of the lamp, picked up the tea cup on the table, drank the tea in one gulp, and placed the empty cup on the table.

He said: "I won't be coming over these days. If I have something to do, I will go to the Palace Commander's Mansion for a small banquet."

Hongman responded hurriedly.

He stood up and was about to leave when he suddenly remembered something. He opened the bamboo curtain and looked out the window at the opposite street.

The rain was getting heavier, and there was no one in front of the gate. Only a lone lamp swayed under the eaves, reflecting the dim yellow color of the water.

Pei Yunying asked: "Where is the opposite place?"

Hongman followed his gaze and replied softly: "It's the Happy House Casino." She saw Pei Yunying looking out the window with a strange expression, so she asked carefully, "Did the prince see anyone here?"

The young man let go and the bamboo curtain fell, hiding the storm outside.

He smiled and said nonchalantly: "It's nothing, I recognized the wrong person."