Denghuaxiao

Chapter 229 Injured
"Be careful--"

Ji Xun exclaimed from behind.

Lu Tong's heart tightened. At the critical moment, suddenly another sharp silver light appeared, and the tip of the knife was knocked off an inch. Then, Lu Tong felt someone pulling him. With a "bang", the silver knife slashed down and the dagger moved forward. Another cold light flashed, and the person on the ground cried out in pain. The dagger and half of his wrist fell to the ground.

The bright red blood immediately spilled all over the white snow. The people inside heard the noise outside and came out to check.

The man on the ground was still struggling, with a sharp silver knife against his throat.

Pei Yunying held her in his arms, staring coldly at the person on the ground, with murderous intent in his eyes.

"Who sent you?"

The bailiff rolled on the ground, covering his severed hand.

A boot pressed against his wrist.

"explain."

"It's Grand Tutor! It was Grand Tutor who asked me to come!"

The man on the ground could no longer bear the severe pain and shouted, "The Grand Master told me to follow Lu Tong to Sunan and kill her when the opportunity arises!"

Lu Tong was startled, and the imperial medical officers who rushed out from all directions were also stunned.

Lu Yan lowered his eyes.

Several times before, she did feel someone was watching her secretly, but she lived in peace all the way to southern Jiangsu for a long time, and later she kept an eye out for herself and didn't find anything wrong.

It turned out to be no illusion.

Qi Yutai was dead, and she was no longer useful to the Qi family. Moreover, for Qi Qing, as long as he had suspicion, he could take action without any evidence.

In Qi Qing's eyes, she was a dead person, whether in Shengjing or southern Jiangsu.

Duan Xiaoyan glanced behind him. The patients of the plague center were gathered at the door, looking out. Afraid that the patients would see such a bloody scene, Duan Xiaoyan looked at the person on the ground and asked, "Sir, what should we do?"

Pei Yunying sheathed the silver knife and said, "Drag him away."

He let go of Lu Tong and looked at her with a frown: "Are you hurt?"

Lu Tong shook his head and was about to speak when his eyes suddenly froze.

In the thick white snow on the ground, drops of bright red dripped down and bloomed into flowers on the snow.

His silver knife had been put back into the scabbard, and Lu Tong looked up, landing on the left arm of the person in front of him.

The Black Scale Guards' uniforms were gorgeous and tough, with a cool color tone. Even if they were injured, it was not clear. However, if you look closely, you can see a thin knife mark on the left arm, and blood is dripping from there.

"Are you hurt?" she asked.

Just now when the bailiff showed the dagger to her, it was Pei Yunying who pulled her away. The dagger was right in front of him, and he blocked it for her. Otherwise, the knife would have stabbed her heart.

Pei Yunying lowered his head to take a look and said nonchalantly, "It's just a minor injury."

He was still looking at her, sizing her up, as if trying to confirm whether she was really safe and sound.

Cai Fang and Li Wenhu trotted over from a distance and watched Duan Xiaoyan and the others drag the killer away. They looked a little terrified: "How could a thief sneak into the county government office..."

"It was directed at me." Lu Tong said, "It's my fault."

"This..." The two of them didn't know what happened in Shengjing, and looked at each other for a moment.

Pei Yunying looked at Lu Zhuo.

"Since they want to kill you, they may have accomplices." Pei Yunying said, "I will go to interrogate them. You go back and have a rest first." He turned his head and called a guard over, asking the guard to guard her. He turned around and left without paying attention to the wound on his left arm.

Lu Tong looked at his back, his eyes falling on the snow in front of him.

The snow was all silver-white, and the bright red bloodstains just now were winding like a flowing river, shocking to the sight.

She clenched her palms.

……

It was a nice time to celebrate the snow, but suddenly such an accident happened, and everyone was a little uneasy.

Lu Tong returned to the plague center and changed the medicine for the patients as usual. He then went back to his dormitory to continue making medicine bags.

As I was doing it, I became a little absent-minded.

Her great revenge had been achieved, and all those who deserved to die had paid with their lives. She thought that everything in the world had been settled clearly, so she returned to southern Jiangsu, waiting patiently for death, which might come at an unknown time. But at this moment, she met Pei Yunying.

Just like the debt note written on the wall back then, it is impossible to settle the debt between the debtor and the debt collector.

Thinking of the scar on Pei Yunying's left arm when he left, he suddenly felt irritated.

The medicine bag was tightly held between her fingertips. Footsteps were heard outside the door. Lu Tong raised her eyes and saw Duan Xiaoyan poking his head in from the window with a smile: "Doctor Lu."

Lu Tong paused.

The young man walked briskly and walked into the room and sat down opposite her in a natural and familiar manner. "I have finished interrogating the person just now. I came to see you."

Lu Tong looked at him: "What's the result?"

"What else can it be? The old man named Qi lost his own son, but he insisted on dragging others to be buried with him. As soon as you left Southern Jiangsu, he sent someone to follow you and kill you on the way. If it weren't for my brother's foresight, he would have taken advantage of you long ago."

"Pei Yunying?"

"Yes," Duan Xiaoyan said, "Brother Yunying guessed that Qi Laogou had no good intentions. So he arranged his people among the guards escorting the medical officer to be on guard at all times. They watched closely, and those people didn't notice."

"Later we came too. There were more people in Southern Jiangsu, and the assassins had no chance to find an opportunity, so they resorted to desperate measures."

Duan Xiaoyan picked up a medicine bag from the basket and said, "Don't worry, the assassins have confessed. There were several of them hiding in Sunan City, and they have all been captured. Now that the Qi family has fallen, no one will take your life anymore."

Lu Tong said nothing, just staring at Xiao Kuang. After a moment, he asked, "How is his injury?"

Duan Xiaoyan blinked, and seemed to realize that Lu Tong was talking about Pei Yunying who had just been stabbed in the left arm while saving her. She slammed the table and shouted, "Oh, it's quite serious. When we were interrogating the prisoner just now, his face turned frighteningly pale and he almost fainted."

Lu Tong said calmly: "The guards of the Palace Guards should not be so weak. Besides, I have seen his wounds, and they are not as serious as you say."

The young man rolled his eyes and said, "Doctor Lu, you are a little blind. My brother was in Qiping during the chaos. It was not easy to fight every day. After the chaos was quelled, he immediately rushed to southern Jiangsu with medicine and food. He was already weak after traveling so much, and now he is injured, which is even worse."

"He's injured, don't you want to go and see him?"

Without waiting for Lu Tong to answer, Duan Xiaoyan grinned again, "Actually, I came to you for this matter. My brother has returned to the dormitory after examining the patient, and Doctor Chang is busy in the plague center, so he asked me to find a medical officer to bandage Brother Yunying. I saw that no one was available, so luckily you are here. Doctor Lu, I put the bandage medicine and cloth strips outside the door. After all, my brother was injured because of you. Your medical skills are so great, I feel relieved to leave him to you."

He stood up and threw the medicine bag back into the basket. "I have official business to attend to, so I'll leave first."

After saying this, without waiting for Lu Tong to speak, he ran out of the house as if escaping.

He ran very fast, and it was too late for Lu Tong to call out. After a moment of silence, he put down the medicine bag in his hand and walked out of the house. Sure enough, there was a medicine tray on the stone table in the yard, with clean water, a cloth strip, and some medicine in it.

She walked to the stone table, sighed slightly in her heart, and finally picked up the medicine tray.

……

The guards' quarters were very close to the medical officers' quarters.

In order to protect the medical officer, Cai Fang specially found two adjacent houses.

The guards followed Cai Fang out at this moment, and there was no one else in the yard.

When Qing Feng saw Lu Tong, a hint of surprise flashed across his eyes. When he saw the medicine she was holding, he turned sideways and opened the door for Lu Tong.

Lu Tong walked in and closed the door behind him.

The room was dark and the windows were not open. The winter in southern Jiangsu was gloomy and the day seemed like dusk. A candle was burning on the table. Under the flickering light, a figure was faintly visible behind a screen.

Hearing the door open, the other party did not move. Lu Tong walked in with the medicine tray in her hand. When she walked around the screen in front of her, she saw a tall figure sitting at the table with his back to her. He was only wearing a black middle-length shirt. He was tilting his head to take the shirt off his shoulders, revealing a bloody wound on his left arm.

There was clean water and medicine on the table, as if he was planning to apply the medicine himself.

Noticing someone approaching, he said, "Get out."

Lu Tong put down the medicine tray.

He frowned slightly, and when he looked up, he was stunned.

"Duan Xiaoyan asked me to apply medicine for you." Lu Tong said.

Pei Yunying looked at her and said nothing.

Lu Tong raised her eyes and motioned for him to put down his arms. After he put down his arms, she reached out and took off Pei Yunying's clothes.

When their fingertips landed on the bare skin, both of them paused slightly. Soon, Lu Tong put away his thoughts and peeled off his outer clothes.

The clothes were completely taken off, revealing the naked half of the young man. He had a slender and strong figure. He had practiced martial arts for many years, and his skin was well-defined and his contours were smooth, like a beautiful cheetah. He had a sense of power ready to strike.

Lu Tong has seen many people's bodies.

Men, women, old people, children, living and dead, just as Lin Danqing said, doctors are used to seeing the bodies of patients. She has seen Pei Yunying shirtless before, but at this moment, a slight uneasiness suddenly flashed through her heart, making her movements of taking the medicine not as familiar as before.

Pei Yunying caught this awkwardness.

He looked at her, paused, and suddenly said, "Why don't you dare look at me?"

Lu Tong tightened her handkerchief, and her tone remained calm: "Master Pei, you are overthinking."

She lowered her head and said this, her expression as calm as usual, but she didn't even look into his eyes.

Pei Yunying lowered his eyes and watched her movements.

Lu Tong used a handkerchief to clean the wound on his arm. The assassin's wound was not deep and he dodged it in time. She took the medicine bottle, applied the ointment on his wound, and selected a clean white silk to bandage him.

During the whole process, neither of them spoke. The wind and snow outside the window were silent, with occasional crisp sounds of heavy snow crushing tree branches.

In the silence, Lu Tong felt the gaze above her head falling on her, so bright that she couldn't ignore it.

There was no charcoal stove in the house. Su Nan was in short supply, so heating was given to the plague center and the people of Su Nan first. It was a cold winter day, but Lu Tong felt that his cheeks were a little hot.

"You've been avoiding me since I came to Sunan."

Pei Yunying's voice came from above my head.

"What are you afraid of? Do you think I will keep pestering you?"

Lu Tong was startled, looked up, and met his gaze.

His tone was very calm, his expression was also indifferent, and his handsome face was not as humorous and friendly as before. Lin Danqing asked her privately several times whether there was anything unknown between her and Pei Yunying, which made this reunion seem particularly unfamiliar.

She deliberately avoided Pei Yunying, and Pei Yunying did not try to get close to her. They were like two strangers who didn't know each other well, maintaining a cold distance.

Lu Tong didn't answer him, but only asked: "Why did you send someone to protect me in Southern Jiangsu?"

He looked at her for a moment, then looked away: "It's just something that comes handy."

"It was me who made you miss the chance to take revenge on Qi Qing," he said, "I should be held responsible to the end."

Lu Yan was silent.

He always makes these things sound light.

Lu Tong's eyes fell on his chest again: "Is this the injury you got in Qishui?"

He had many scars on his body, some fresh and some hideous, which, together with the clumsy and immature wound from many years ago, left scars on the cheetah's body.

Pei Yunying took a look and said indifferently, "It will be fine soon."

Lu Chen lowered his head.

She had heard from Cai Fang and Li Wenhu about Pei Yunying's prowess during the Qishui Rebellion. They had admired and praised his bravery and fighting skills countless times in front of the medical officers. But Lu Tong knew that the Qishui Rebellion had been causing trouble for a long time, and it must not be an easy task to suppress it after several previous failures.

Right now, that should be difficult.

Pei Yunying looked down at her for a moment, and suddenly asked: "Are you worried about me?"

Without waiting for Lu Tong to speak, he said calmly: "What identity are you worried about now? A medical officer, or something else?"

Lu Tong's throat tightened.

She didn't loosen her grip on the cloth strip. She felt as if she had been seen through in an instant. She couldn't stay here any longer. Otherwise, given the other party's intelligence, it would be difficult for them not to notice something.

She stood up and put the bottle of medicine on the table.

"Your wound has been bandaged. I'll leave the plaster here. You can change it yourself at night." She said, "I'll send you some medicine later."

After saying this, he bent over, picked up the basin of water on the table, and was about to leave.

Pei Yunying looked at Lu Tong.

She spoke in a calm tone, but she had no idea how hurried her steps were.

Lu Tong was much thinner than when she was in Shengjing. Perhaps it was because she was too exhausted from treating the epidemic, but her originally thin body now looked even weaker, and her face was very pale. Her gray-green cotton robe made her look like a small animal that was about to freeze to death, about to fall asleep in this cold and severe snow.

His heart moved, and he couldn't help but call her: "Lu Tong."

She stopped and asked: "Master Pei, do you have any other instructions?"

The snow is rustling, the wind is blowing, and the long and cold air outside makes people sober.

He looked at her for a long time and said, "Nothing."

……

Lu Tong returned to his residence.

The unfinished medicine bags in the medicine basket on the table had been taken out. There was no one in the room, so she sat down under the window.

The window faces a small courtyard. In the falling snow, the shadow of Luomei Peak can be seen in the distance. In the cold forest, dots of bright red can be seen faintly.

Lu Tong was slightly absent-minded.

The red plum blossoms on Luomei Peak always bloomed beautifully. The heavier the snow, the more gorgeous they were, with branches full of dazzling colors. In the past, she always sat under the tree, imitating Yunniang's behavior. The red snow on the branches always made people calm, and even the most depressed mood could be calmed here.

But today I just can't calm down.

Some things seem to be out of control as one thinks, and cannot be cut off with a clean knife. They are like endless willow branches that break and grow again, completely endless.

I suddenly felt an itchy sensation in my nasal cavity, as if tiny insects were crawling out of it.

Lin Danqing came in from outside holding a medical box and said with a smile: "It's Xiaoxue today. The medicine soup sent by Pei Dianshuai is good. I just went to the plague center to check. Everyone is in much better spirits. Let's drink it later..."

"Clang-" a sound.

Lin Danqing dropped the medical kit in his hand and looked at her in surprise, "Sister Lu, why are you bleeding from your nose?"

Lu Tong lowered his head in confusion, and was stunned.

There was a bright red liquid dripping from the tip of the nose.

One drop after another.

Like a gorgeous red plum blossom blooming on Fallen Plum Peak, its delicate red gradually stained her dress.

(End of this chapter)