MTL - Denghuaxiao-Chapter 87 With the total death

Chapter 87 Living and dying together

The wind seeped in through the window, and the figures on the ground were swayed slightly.

If last night was a tacit temptation, today it has become a tense confrontation.

Lu Zhen looked at the person in front of him and thought that the commander of the front department had arrived faster than expected.

 A hint of ecstasy suddenly appeared in Duan Xiaoyan's eyes, and he shouted: "Sir!"

Pei Yun glanced at him: "Why are you sitting on the ground?"

The young man's handsome face flushed red, and he shuddered before speaking in shame: "I was bitten by a venomous snake, and I still have half an hour to recover from the poison, so I don't dare to do strenuous activities."

Hearing this, Pei Yunying raised his eyebrows and his eyes fell on the woman making medicine in the room.

“Doctor Lu, what do you mean?”

Lu Zhen's expression was calm, and he was not at all flustered by the fact that there was another person in the room. He was even a little indifferent to Duan Xiaoyan who was slumped on the ground.

"Master Pei, your man sneaked into the hospital late at night, rummaged in my kitchen at will, and was bitten by a poisonous snake that I found for medicine. He was poisoned. Do you have to blame me for this?"

She ridiculed: "There is no such article in the "Liang Dynasty Laws" that I have memorized."

Pei Yunying glanced at Duan Xiaoyan on the ground. Duan Xiaoyan Nuonuo didn't dare to speak.

After a moment of silence, he took a few steps back, leaned against the door with his arms crossed, and said with a smile, "What do you want, Doctor Lu?"

 Direct and decisive, this person doesn’t say anything nonsense.

 Lu Zhen's hand stopped for a moment and he put down the medicine hammer, "I don't want to do anything."

“There is no antidote to this poison, and even if there was one, it would not be possible to create an antidote in such a short period of time.”

Duan Xiaoyan’s face turned pale.

She looked at Pei Yunying again, with a bit of sarcasm in her eyes: "He is just a servant. He will die when he dies. Why is the commander like this?"

 Duan Xiaoyan’s forehead and heart beat faintly.

 What does "servant" mean? What does "die when you die" mean?

What doctor can say such cold words?

It is in vain that he used to think that Lu Huan was a female Bodhisattva. He will go to the temple tomorrow to apologize to the female Bodhisattva!

The house was quiet, with only the night wind blowing the flames and making light shadows. Under the firefly sacs hanging in the courtyard, the wind chimes were blown, and the clear and pleasant ringing could be faintly heard.

Pei Yunying stared at her and suddenly curled his lips.

 He said: "Red Arrow."

As soon as he finished speaking, a man who looked like a guard quietly appeared at the kitchen door. In front of the guard, a young woman had her hands cut behind her back, and she looked at Lu Huo with a hint of panic.

 Lu Zhen's complexion changed slightly.

 She had clearly asked Yin Zheng to hide outside the hospital...

The young man sighed, took a chair, walked over and sat down opposite Lu Zong, his smile was particularly bright under the light.

He said: "Doctor Lu has thought carefully about your maid, but it's a pity that your maid is too loyal and worried about you, so she turned back midway."

He stared at Lu Huan with great interest: "Now, Doctor Lu still wants to say that he is just a servant, will he die when he dies?"

Lu Zhen’s eyes darkened slightly.

 Many people in Shengjing call her "Doctor Lu".

Du Changqing called her casually, Acheng called her with admiration, and Hu Yuanwai and other neighbors called her cordially and cautiously. This was the respect born from treating her as a real doctor.

But no one screamed as teasingly as Pei Yunying.

His smiling black eyes, scornful tone, and casual posture seemed to clearly indicate that he had already seen clearly that she was not a benevolent "doctor" at all.

Yin Zheng's regretful voice came from the door: "I'm sorry, girl, I..."

Lu Zhen looked directly at Pei Yunying: "What do you want to do?"

Without waiting for Pei Yunying to answer, Duan Xiaoyan spoke first: "What else can you do, Doctor Lu, give me the antidote, and my lord will release your maid. Everyone is happy. We have the best of both worlds. In the future, the well will not interfere with the river."

This does sound like a good deal, one person for another, very fair.

 Lu Zong was quiet and raised his head: "What if I say, there is no antidote?"

 Duan Xiaoyan was stunned.

 There is no antidote?

How can it be!

He instinctively felt that this was nonsense, but when he saw Lu Shu's indifferent expression, he suddenly felt a little undecided and couldn't help but become nervous.

“Doctor Lu, you...don’t be joking.”

He completely relaxed after Pei Yunying appeared, just because he felt that Lu Huo said all this to scare him. She wouldn't really watch him die, right?

 What good will his death do to Lu Zhen?

Yin Zheng looked at Lu Yan and spoke earnestly: "Girl, leave me alone, don't let me be a burden to you. The fortune teller said before that I was not lucky enough to live until nineteen. It would be okay to replace me with a imperial guard in front of the palace before I die. Well worth it.”

Hearing this, Duan Xiaoyan was anxious: "It's not worth it, it's not worth it. I'm not worth it! Sister, please think about it again!"

　　"There is nothing worth it. People live for a lifetime and are buried when they die. Girl, we will still be sisters in the next life."

The interruption between the two of them made the tense atmosphere a little less tense. In the middle of this dumbfounding conversation, Lu Huo spoke.

She said: "Young Master Duan died here today. Master Pei avenged him and killed my maid. I think he will not let me go tomorrow, let alone Renxin Medical Center."

“After all, Mr. Pei is a member of the emperor’s bodyguard and has a noble status. It’s easy to attack ordinary people like us.”

 “You can’t escape death no matter what…”

 She raised her eyes and looked at the person opposite calmly.

“Then let’s not go out of this door today and die together.”

As soon as these words came out, not only Duan Xiaoyan but also the red arrow at the door were shocked.

How could they both die together after just a disagreement?

 What kind of number is this?

Lu Zhen raised his chin and spoke calmly in the midst of the shocked gazes.

“The hospital practices medicine and medicine, and there are medicines and poisons everywhere in the hospital. It is easy to come in, but not necessarily easy to leave. It is also common for someone to break in rashly and accidentally step on something poisonous.”

 She looked at Pei Yunying: "Really, Mr. Pei?"

 No one spoke.

 On a cold autumn night, the tear candles flickered, and the room was filled with dim yellow lights that were sultry.

Pei Yunying looked at her with a pair of deep eyes as black as glazed stones, and suddenly chuckled.

 “You want to die with me?”

He smiled and said, "That won't work. We will live in the same quilt, die in the same cave, and share the same grave after death. I only do this with my wife."

These words were said in a frivolous manner, but he had a serious look on his face and a smile on his face, as if the commander in front of him was not a commander with ulterior motives and a hidden agenda, but a romantic man pursuing pleasure and laughter under the shade of candles and flowers.

Lu Zhen was silent for a moment and then said: "Do you have a wife?"

Pei Yunying was slightly startled.

 Duan Xiaoyan was also stunned for a moment. What does this mean? Why did Lu Zhen suddenly ask this? Could it be that Lu Yan wanted to use Pei Yunying's position as the Crown Princess in exchange for his antidote?

There was a moment of silence.

Pei Yunying said: "No."

Lu Huo nodded: "That's good. If you die today, you don't have to worry about your wife. The family can still save a betrothal gift."

Her tone of voice was so calm that no one in the room could tell whether she was serious or joking.

The wind was rustling outside the window, Pei Yunying looked at her quietly, and suddenly sighed.

 “Thank you for being thoughtful for me, but it’s not a matter of life or death.”

“Doctor Lu, why don’t we have a good talk.”

“Yes, yes, yes!” Duan Xiaoyan glanced at the engravings on the case, “Don’t be so excited yet, talk to us if you have anything to say, we can discuss everything.”

 After a moment of silence, Lu Yan asked: "What do you want to talk about?"

The lights were silent, and the dim candlelight enveloped the person opposite. The eagle pattern embroidered with silver silk thread on his wrist guard shone with a fine cold light, beautiful and dangerous. The young man's eyebrows were bewildering, but every word he spoke was cold.

“The male corpse found in Wangchun Mountain last night was Liu Kun, the owner of Liu’s Noodle House on Queer Street in Shengjing.”

“Coincidentally, Liu Kun’s youngest son happened to participate in this year’s tribute ceremony, and was imprisoned for a fraud case.”

“Doctor Lu,” he asked Lu Chen, “do you know Liu Kun?”

"do not know."

“But before that, you went to Liu Ji Noodle House for dinner.” He smiled, “Don’t remember?”

 Lu Zhen's heart moved.

 This man moves so fast.

She didn't do it deliberately when she contacted the Liu family, the Fan family, and even Qichuan, just because she didn't want anyone to find out. But Pei Yunying still found it.

He is obviously from the Palace Front Division, but his methods are better than those from the Imperial City Division.

She raised her eyes and looked directly into Pei Yunying's eyes, her watery eyes tinged with sarcasm.

"Master Pei," she spoke word by word, "are your front officers so meticulous in investigating cases? Since you have been investigating me for so long but have not taken action, now the tribute case has been settled, and the Ministry of Rites has committed a crime." All the ministers were defeated."

"You want to use my hands to kill people? Then shouldn't you... thank me?"

 In an instant, the air in the room became cold.

In the swaying bright lamp on the table, the spikes of the lamp were covered with tiny star flowers. A small star flower was blown down by the wind, and the embers disappeared in an instant under the night wind.

 No one in the room spoke, and everyone was as silent as a cicada.

Pei Yunying sat opposite Lu Yan, the smile in those extremely dark and bright eyes gradually faded, and murderous intent filled the air in an instant.

 He leaned forward slowly and stared into Lu Yan's eyes. “Doctor Lu, who are you working for?”

She remained unmoved, smiled slightly, met his gaze provocatively, and uttered two words.

"you guess."

Pei Yunying's eyes moved slightly and he looked steadily at the person in front of him.

 The light of the lamp burned to the root and became fainter.

In the dim light, her eyes were clear and fragile, like the white mist in the early morning of late autumn, which dissipated into smoke in an instant as long as the wind blew and the sun shone.

 When I saw her yesterday, she looked pale and weak, but today she seemed to have a light rouge on her face. That light red color was like the color of plum blossoms on the branches, which made her look a little more delicate and charming, and that delicate beauty also concealed coldness.

Such a woman with deep scheming and ruthless methods, but also with different appearances and ulterior motives, she is the female Bodhisattva in the eyes of the world who can help the world with a hanging pot and apricot grove with spring.

He gave a sarcastic smile, which was a little bit irritating.

He said: "Doctor Lu, is this your confidence?"

 “Your Majesty, you might as well give it a try.”

 There was silence in the room for a while.

Duan Xiaoyan looked at the woman at the table in disbelief and murmured: "Are you crazy? How dare you threaten me like this?"

With such a blatant threat, without even trying to cover it up, isn't she afraid of getting into trouble later?

Lu Zhen lowered his head and smiled, and said indifferently: "Yes, I am a madman, so don't mess with me at will."

She looked at Pei Yunying and said in a very soft voice: "Besides, haven't you already received the benefits?"

Pei Yunying's pupils narrowed slightly.

"Master Pei," Lu Zhuo said slowly, "you investigate your case, and I practice my medicine. We have nothing to do with each other."

 “Irrelevant to each other?”

 He nodded and looked at her thoughtfully: "So this is what Doctor Lu wanted to say today."

Lu Zong looked at him calmly.

It was very late at night, and there was no longer a whisper in the courtyard. In the dim yellow, the two people looked at each other, and the place where their eyes met was like a night in Shengjing, with ups and downs.

After a moment, he leaned back and twitched the corners of his lips: "I will consider it."

 He said "consider".

Lu Zhuo's heart sank. Before he could speak, he saw Pei Yunying tilting her head and said to the guard at the door: "Let him go."

As soon as the guard named Chi Jian loosened his grip, Yin Zheng hurriedly ran over and immediately ran in front of Lu Zhu, looking at the people in the room warily.

Duan Xiaoyan was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized what he was doing. He was so anxious that sweat broke out on his forehead, and he wailed, "Sir, why did you let her go? I haven't gotten the antidote yet!"

Pei Yun glanced at him: "Idiot, that's just a black snake."

"Black snake?" Duan Xiaoyan looked at the dead snake on the table and was confused for a moment, "Isn't it a seven-step walk?"

Lu Yan’s eyes fell on Duan Xiaoyan, and the corners of his lips curved.

She said: "Qibusan is a venomous snake. The medical center and pharmacy store saves people and cures diseases. How can they secretly store highly poisonous substances? Besides, Young Master Duan is from the front office of the palace. He plans to murder the emperor's guards, unless he is killed."

She returned what Duan Xiaoyan said before, and finally looked at him with a sincere expression, "I was joking with Young Master Duan just now, Young Master Duan, don't you take it seriously?"

 Duan Xiaoyan: “…”

 It turned out to be fake?

 But the look and tone in her voice when she just spoke didn't sound like she was joking at all.

Pei Yunying lowered her head, smiled, and stood up.

He said: "I disturbed Doctor Lu tonight. I will ask Duan Xiaoyan to come to the door another day to apologize to Doctor Lu." He glanced at Duan Xiaoyan again, "Why don't you get up?"

 Duan Xiaoyan was speechless for a moment, then he climbed up from the ground, rubbed his forearms to keep up. Before leaving, he hesitated to speak, looking full of frustration.

A few people had just left the hospital when they suddenly heard someone shouting from behind: "Wait a minute."

Pei Yunying paused, turned around, and saw Lu Zhuo walking out of the shop holding a lantern.

The woman walked to the door of the medical clinic with a limp dead snake in her hand and shook it towards Duan Xiaoyan. Duan Xiaoyan was still frightened and subconsciously took a step back.

Lu Tong said: "Young Master Duan, although I didn't walk in seven steps, this black snake also cost me twenty taels of silver. Since you killed it by throwing it, you should compensate me for the silver."

 Duan Xiaoyan: “…”

He was bitten and was frightened. In the end, he had to pay money. Why was it never discovered in the past that Renxin Medical Center had the potential to become a black shop?

However, Lu Zhuo was standing in front of him. After what happened tonight, when Duan Xiaoyan looked at the female Bodhisattva again, he instinctively felt a little frightened, so he had to take out the silver coins from his arms and handed them to Lu Zhuo with both hands. in hand.

Lu Zhuo took the silver and handed the dead snake to Duan Xiaoyan. Duan Xiaoyan didn't dare to accept it, so she hung the snake corpse on Pei Yunying's arm and said calmly: "The snake belongs to you."

Having said that, he said no more and slammed the door of the medical center in front of them.

The long street is silent, and the branches along the street cast uneven shadows in the dim light of the lanterns.

The young man looked at the closed door in front of him, his eyes unclear.

After a long time, Duan Xiaoyan, who was beside him, swallowed and spoke cautiously: "Brother, she is so arrogant."

 She is obviously just a doctor in a medical clinic, and she is weak and cute, but tonight she is not weak at all. Looking at her aggressive appearance, it is very scary.

When he saw Pei Yunying's cool eyes sweeping over him, he hurriedly coughed: "I know, I made a mistake today. Don't worry, I will accept the punishment myself when I get back. But..." He approached Pei Yunying and asked in a low voice: "You checked for a long time before We can't even find out her identity. We just tested her and she admitted that there is someone behind her?"

Pei Yunying had asked Mulian to check Lu Hu's identity before, but the yellow certificate that could prove her identity was fake. Refugees from Beijing often went to the carpenter who carved seals in the Dongmen Bridge to make fake yellow certificates. Such a poor yellow book costs only a hundred yuan per piece.

When Du Changqing entered the medical hall of the household, he would check carefully about the doctor of the museum, and the owner of the Renxin Medical Museum may not see it. Lu Chen practiced medicine in a medical clinic with a fake pornographic certificate. It can only be said that she was bold, and Du Changqing was more courageous than her. Such a strange pair of tricks made Mulian unable to find any clues that could prove Lu Chen's identity.

  She was like a person who appeared in Shengjing out of thin air.

Duan Xiaoyan lowered his voice: "Who do you think the person behind her is? The third prince?"

The Ministry of Rites is the most implicated in this tribute case. The prince has been in a lot of trouble recently, but the third prince seems to be feeling refreshed. It is not impossible if the third prince sends Lu Zhuo to do something secretly.

Pei Yunying said nothing, seeming to be deep in thought.

Duan Xiaoyan looked at the aching wound on his forearm and sighed again: "She tormented me like this for nothing all night, just to vent her anger on purpose. Brother, you said that if she is really the third prince's person, she has such a strong desire for revenge, she will turn around and talk to her What will the third prince do if he complains and causes trouble for us?"

Pei Yun came back to his senses, sneered, raised his hand, and the dead snake fell into Duan Xiaoyan's arms, shocking Duan Xiaoyan.

 He turned around, his voice cold.

“If she really belongs to the third prince, take her to Zhaoyu Temple and torture her. Maybe she will be willing to have a good talk.”

 …

 In the house, Lu Zhuo put the lantern on the ground, entered the house and sat down.

After the people left, she felt as if a thousand pounds of weight had been lifted off her body. She spread her palms and they were wet.

Yin Zheng's face was filled with self-blame: "Girl, it's all my fault. If I hadn't turned back at that time, you wouldn't have been threatened by them."

Lu Zhen shook his head: "It's okay, he didn't want to attack us in the first place."

Yin Zheng was startled: "Why?"

Lu Zhen smiled softly: "You don't really think that he didn't come to arrest me because he couldn't find any evidence, do you?"

 “Isn’t it?”

"of course not."

Lu Zhen said calmly, "The water in Shengjing is deep. Do you think he is a good person?"

Pei Yunying had suspected her from a long time ago, at least after Ke Chengxing's death. After that, he repeatedly tried to use tricks, including Duan Xiaoyan's stalking at the door of Fan's house, all of which were the tactics of the commander.

In fact, as the commander of the front department and the eldest son of Duke Zhaoning, if he really doubts someone, he does not need any evidence and can use other methods to make her suffer. It's a piece of cake.

 But he didn't.

Lu Zong thought for a long time and had a vague guess in his mind.

 Perhaps he is afraid of someone.

Just like Liu Kun has Fan Zhenglian behind him, and Fan Zhenglian has connections with the Taishi Mansion behind his back. People in the officialdom always look after each other, and a small person arrested today may become a distant relative of a big person tomorrow.

Pei Yunying has been reluctant to take action against her, which at least shows that there is no harm to his interests in the tribute case, and he may be happy to see the result.

Duan Xiaoyan's appearance today was an accident, but her negotiation with Pei Yunying was intentional. He was testing her, and she was testing him.

Pei Yunying's reaction told her that she had made the right bet. He was indeed suspecting that there was someone behind her.

In this case, she followed Pei Yunying's guess, disrupted his vision, and made the unfounded "big man" her false talisman.

Yin Zheng handed over the handkerchief, Lu Zhu took it and wiped the sweat from his palms.

The other person looks bright and smiley, but in fact he is sharp and dangerous. When confronting him, she must be confident and unfathomable. She must not show any cowardice, and must not let the other party see her trump card.

 It’s all disguise.

Yin Zheng asked: "Will Commander Pei come again in the future?"

Lu Zhen shook his head: "Not yet. He thinks I have a backer and wants to take advantage of me, so he won't do anything to me in the short term. But..."

But if you want to use her, you have to see whether Pei Yunying has the ability.

Yin Zheng became even more worried after hearing this, "But the fire can't be contained. What if he finds out that there is no one behind the girl? He has an official position, wouldn't it be easy to find an excuse?"

Lu Zong wiped his hands for a moment.

 After a moment, she said: "What are you afraid of?"

　　"If one day, he will block my way..."

 “I will kill him.”

 (End of this chapter)