Lamp Flower Smile

The lingering chill from the wind and snow had not yet faded from my body, and in the flickering light of the oil lamp, the visitor's facial features were clearly illuminated.

Yin Zheng said in surprise: "Master Pei?"

Lu Chen paused, and his tense body gradually relaxed. The person behind him released his hand that was holding her. Lu Chen turned around and looked at the person in front of him.

It turned out to be Pei Yunying.

In the narrow hospital room, he wore a black arrow suit, which almost blended into the darkness. His expression was generous and calm, as if it was someone else who did such a thing as breaking into a house at night.

There was a very slight smell of blood coming from the person in front of him.

Pei Yunying glanced at the flower hairpin in Lu Zhuo's hand, his eyes moved, and he joked: "Fortunately, I moved quickly, it won't be poisonous, right?"

Lu Zhuo put the hairpin back into his sleeve and said calmly: "What are you doing, Commander-in-Chief?"

Coming to the hospital in the middle of the night and knocking on the door, and dressed like this, it's hard not to think too much.

"It's a bit troublesome." Pei Yunying sighed, "I want to use your place to stay here for a while."

His tone was too natural, as if he and Lu Zhen had been friends for many years, and he made such a request without any hesitation, which made Yin Zheng slightly widen his eyes in shock.

"not good."

Lu Yan said calmly: "I am not related to the palace commander. If I help the palace commander, I will offend others. Those crazy dogs in Shengjing are very difficult to deal with. I never ask for trouble."

Pei Yunying's eyes were slightly startled.

Aren't these familiar words exactly what he said when Qi Yutai came to the door in Yuxian Tower and Lu Yan asked him to help rescue him?

Lu Chen now returned his original words.

Pei Yunying lowered his head and smiled: "Doctor Lu must retaliate."

"Thanks for the compliment."

He nodded: "What you said makes sense, but if I were discovered here, it would be bad for you."

Lu Zhuo raised his eyes.

He smiled brightly, without any awareness of the danger on his face, and Youyou said: "In case others think that we are in the same group, Doctor Lu will also be implicated."

"I don't care," he shrugged helplessly, "but if Dr. Lu is investigated and investigated, and some secrets are found out... wouldn't it be very troublesome if it delays what you want to do?"

Lu Chen looked at him coldly.

He looked unconcerned.

This man didn't know what he was trying to do, or who he had offended. But now she wants to enter the palace. If Pei Yunying is really discovered here and harms her, all her previous plans will be in vain.

Pei Yunying felt confident because he had calculated accurately.

The oil in the lamp gradually became lighter, and the candle wick in the oil lamp swayed, illuminating the expressions of everyone in the room in a blur.

After a while, Lu Yan turned around and said coldly: "Follow me."

…

The wind and snow outside are getting heavier.

The ground in the small courtyard was covered with a layer of silvery white, and the faint light from a row of orange lamps under the window eaves made the heavy snow drift from the sky.

As soon as Lu Yan came out of the kitchen, there was a loud banging on the door outside the hospital.

Yin Zheng stood in the yard holding an oil lamp and looked at Lu Zhu nervously.

Lu Tong was silent, took the oil lamp, opened the felt curtain and walked towards the door of the medical center.

"Bang bang bang——"

The sound of knocking on the door was urgent, especially harsh in the dark winter night. As soon as Lu Yan opened the door, the bright torches suddenly lit up the long street in front of the door.

At the door of the hospital stood a group of soldiers patrolling the bunkhouse. They opened the door aggressively and all rushed into the hospital.

Yin Zheng said "Hey", but before she could say anything, a group of soldiers rushed into the hospital like wolves, rummaging around and searching.

"Who is it?" Yin Zheng called.

The leader of the army took a step inside and saw Lu Zhuo's face clearly under the dim light. He was stunned for a moment and then called out: "Doctor Lu?"

Lu Zhuo looked at this man and nodded slightly: "Master Shen."

This person turned out to be Shen Fengying from the military patrol shop.

Shen Fengying seemed to have just come to his senses. He took two steps back and looked at the plaque on the door of the medical clinic. Then he slapped his thigh: "I didn't even see you coming here!" He turned around and called to the people behind him, "Be gentle, don't worry. You broke people and things!" He looked at Lu Huan again, "I'm sorry, Doctor Lu, I have to bother you again."

"It doesn't matter." Lu Yan asked: "But, what is Master Shen doing? Will he receive another report about the murder and burial of corpses at Renxin Medical Center?"

This group of soldiers came in with great momentum. In terms of the formation of troops and horses, they were even worse than the last time.

Hearing this, Shen Fengying seemed a little embarrassed as he recalled the misunderstanding about breaking into the medical clinic the night before.

Shen Fengying coughed lightly: "That's not true. There is an assassin escaping in the palace tonight, and people are being searched all over the city. Our patrol house was also called up."

He walked into the medical center holding a torch and asked Lu Huan, "Dr. Lu, didn't you see anyone suspicious here?"

"No."

"That's strange." Shen Fengying mused, "Just now we were chasing the assassin, and we seemed to have seen a figure at the door of your medical center."

Yin Zheng's eyes trembled.

Lu Yan said calmly: "Really? I didn't see anyone. There was a snowman built by Acheng in front of the hospital. Maybe the adults misunderstood the snowman."

Shen Fengying nodded: "Maybe." Having said that, he did not relax at all when he summoned the soldiers to search. Shen Fengying himself entered the inner bunk with a knife and patrolled around.

It was very cold in the yard, and red gauze lanterns were hung on the branches of plum trees, illuminating the snow on the ground reddishly.

Yin Zheng twisted the handkerchief in her hands and glanced toward the kitchenette uneasily.

This gaze was immediately caught by Shen Fengying.

He spoke alertly: "What's over there?"

Lu Chen replied: "It's the kitchen."

Shen Fengying glanced at Lu Zhu, raised his hand, and called to the soldiers behind him: "Search the kitchen carefully!"

Yin Zheng's expression changed.

The hand holding the oil lamp trembled.

The soldiers received the order and swarmed into the kitchen, making the relatively spacious kitchen suddenly cramped. Shen Fengying walked in quickly.

The kitchen was so simple that it could even be called shabby, with plaster walls, an earthen pot and an earthen stove, some leftover vegetables and fruits on the stone table, and some eggs and sweet potatoes in a straw basket under the stove. The fire was out, leaving only scattered ashes scattered on the ground.

Shen Fengying cautiously took a few steps inside, but saw nothing suspicious. Just as he was about to leave, his eyes suddenly froze.

In the corner of the kitchen, there was a thick stack of hay.

It is common for ordinary people to stack haystacks at home to save firewood. However, the Renxin Medical Center did not raise livestock. If it was used for cooking, stacking haystacks in the kitchen would easily cause a fire, and there was obviously an empty room in the courtyard.

Moreover, this haystack is really too big.

It was piled thickly in the corner, like a hill. If a thief sneaked in, it would be difficult to detect him hiding here.

Shen Fengying's eyes flashed with confusion. He walked to the haystack and suddenly drew his sword and waved it!

In an instant, there was a "crash-" sound.

The haystack was like a mountain of broken earth, which collapsed and disintegrated in an instant. The dark corner of the haystack gradually emerged from the slowly sliding grass debris.

"This is……"

Shen Fengying's expression suddenly changed.

It's like a treasure buried deep in the ground has been pushed aside by the thick soil, revealing its secrets.

Under those thick haystacks, there were actually several dark porcelain jars half as tall as a man.

The porcelain jar is huge and can accommodate one person hiding in it. It is like a few black mounds rising suddenly, weird and abnormal.

Shen Fengying remembered clearly that when he returned to Renxin Medical Center to search, these large black porcelain jars were not in the kitchen.

He swallowed and his tone became colder: "Doctor Lu, what is this?"

"They are some medicinal materials used in daily medicine." Lu Chen answered.

As soon as he finished speaking, a soft sound suddenly came from the black porcelain jar. The movement was not loud, but in the quiet night, it reached everyone's ears clearly.

The expression of Pu Bing who was nearest changed: "Sir! There is something inside."

Shen Fengying squinted his eyes and looked at Lu Zhu subconsciously.

Lu Yan stood at the door of the kitchen, a position not far away but not close. The oil lamp in his hand was blown by the cold wind and seemed to be extinguished in the next moment, so his vision became blurred.

Shen Fengying's face gradually became serious. He pulled out the sword from his waist and signaled the soldiers around him to retreat. He walked to the porcelain vat. The torch light shone on him and clearly illuminated the beads of sweat rolling down his forehead.

There was silence all around.

Shen Fengying slowly approached the porcelain vat, holding the lid of the porcelain vat with one hand and holding a knife across his face with the other, and suddenly lifted it——

"Hiss——"

There was a rustling sound from the porcelain vat, and accompanied by the screams of soldiers around him, Shen Fengying stared blankly at the things in the porcelain vat. For a long time, he turned to Lu Yan in shock: "This, this is... a snake? "

This porcelain jar actually contains dozens of long black snakes!

The scales of the long snake were dark and moist, and they were intertwined together and made a soft friction sound. Shen Fengying only took one look at it and quickly closed the lid.

"Doctor Lu, why did you put the snake in this tank?"

These poisons are eerie and terrifying, all intertwined and rustling, and it sounds scary.

Lu Zhuo approached with an oil lamp and said in a calm tone: "The medical center sometimes needs fresh snake sloughs and snake blood to make medicines. These are the medicinal materials that Hua Yinzi collected from the snake catchers."

Shen Fengying pointed to several other porcelain jars: "Are these too?"

Lu Chen handed the oil lamp to Yin Zheng, walked to the other porcelain jars, opened the lids, and asked Shen Fengying to take a closer look.

The other porcelain jars contained scorpions, centipedes and toads.

Shen Fengying stared at Lu Yun without saying anything for a long time before speaking: "Doctor Lu, are you trying to refine Gu?"

He, a man, felt flustered and short of breath after seeing these things, but Lu Zhuo, a weak woman, had an unfazed expression, as if she was happy to deal with these things.

If he hadn't been familiar with West Street, Shen Fengying would have suspected that he had entered a medical center in the underworld.

"Lord Shen, I don't know that medicine has seven emotions, those that are alone, those that are beard-bearing, those that are messengers, those that are evil, those that are opposite, and those that are killing each other."

"Those who kill each other control each other's poison. If these poisons are placed well, they can also be a life-saving recipe."

Shen Fengying heard this and was confused. He looked at the kitchen again and saw nothing suspicious except for a few porcelain jars. He called the soldiers behind him to exit first.

The soldiers followed Shen Fengying and left the kitchen and walked to the small courtyard. The wind was blowing outside, and flakes of flying snow fell on people like catkins.

Shen Fengying passed by the plum tree in the small courtyard and thought that it was like this the last time he came back. He turned the medical center upside down in a rage and found nothing in the end. He felt a little guilty and a little bit ashamed for no reason.

Logically speaking, he actually didn't have any bad feelings towards Lu Zhuo.

Last time, Dr. Lu and Pei Yunying, the commander of the front department, staged a good show in front of the military patrol house in order to drag Prince Wenjun's palace into trouble. Shen Fengying also found out about what happened later. Pei Yunying's sister, Princess Wenjun, reconciled smoothly and moved out of Prince Wenjun's palace. However, the concubine who hired a murderer and the empress in the palace met with great misfortune.

Shen Fengying knew that he was being targeted by Pei Yunying, and he was ready to offend Prince Wen and get out of the army patrol house sooner or later. Unexpectedly, after the incident, his boss personally spoke to him, greeted him a bit, and said in a reasonable manner that he was in a dilemma about the matter, but he handled it extremely well, and he would not be promoted in the future.

I don’t know whether this cake can satisfy his hunger, but at least it makes Shen Fengying temporarily relieved.

He also understood that it must have been Pei Yunying who had greeted the troops patrolling the bungalow, so that he would not be troubled by King Wenjun afterwards.

At that time, Shen Fengying's dislike of Pei Yunying dissipated a lot.

If it hadn't been for the order from the city guard tonight, he wouldn't have come to trouble Lu Yan in the middle of the night.

Just as he was thinking about it, Lu Zhen, who was walking in front, paused and suddenly coughed twice.

Shen Feng responded and looked at her hurriedly.

Because she was in a hurry to open the door at night, Lu Yan only wore a thin outer dress and a plain white middle coat underneath. The hairpin had been removed, and her long black hair hung down to her chest. She was very thin and looked innocent and innocent. Ignorant, standing in the light under the wind and snow, like a snow-white magnolia blooming in the wind, weak against the cold winter.

The beauty was weak and she immediately felt a trace of pity and self-blame for Shen Fengying, and quickly said: "It's really Shen who bothered Doctor Lu rashly tonight."

"Nothing's going on here. I'm sorry. Doctor Lu, please go back to the room and rest." He raised his hand and called to his men: "Let's go!"

This group of soldiers left in a furious manner just as they had arrived. Leaving messy footprints on the snow in the courtyard.

Lu Yan tightened his outer clothes and watched the last soldier leave the hospital with a lamp. He waited at the door of the hospital for a long time until there was no movement outside, and then returned to the small courtyard with an oil lamp.

Yin Zheng stood at the door of the dormitory, looked inside, and then looked at Lu Yan worriedly: "Girl..."

"It's okay. You go to the back bunk and watch out for anyone coming over."

After hesitating for a moment, fearing that people outside would turn back, Yin Zheng left with the lantern.

In the gap of the flower window at the door of the dormitory, an orange light shines faintly.

The wind and snow and the charcoal stove, the cold and the warmth, are like two worlds separated by a door.

Lu Tong stood at the door for a moment, then opened the door and walked in.

As soon as I entered the house, a warm breeze hit my face.

There was a stove in the corner of the house, the flower window was half-opened, and the rugged plum branches just framed the window view, remaining motionless in the cold wind.

In the boudoir, Pei Yunying was standing in front of the small Buddha cabinet with her back to Lu Yan.

Lu Zhen entered the room, closed the door, looked at his back and said, "Master Pei, he has left."

Pei Yunying turned around.

Incense candles were lit in front of the small Buddha cabinet, and the dim candlelight flickered in the room. He was dressed in black, with handsome features, like a spirit that suddenly appeared in front of the Guanyin Seat on a snowy night, uninvited, presumptuous and dangerous.

Seeing Lu Chen's look, he smiled and spoke in a somewhat teasing tone.

"It's so easy to be deceived by you. No wonder the security in Shengjing is getting worse and worse."