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Lu Shiqing really couldn't eat anymore, and originally wanted to refuse gently, but since she was just fooling him, he was not polite and said, "I appreciate the county lady's kindness, but I have already had breakfast." After saying that, he stretched out his fingertips as if they were very noble and pushed the thing away.
Lu Shuangyu's eyes followed his movements slowly, looking at the double-drawer food box, as if to see if there was any share for her.
Yuan Cixian didn't have time to pay attention to her at this time. She concealed her guilty conscience and said, "Then I'll come earlier next time so that I can catch up with your breakfast time."
"The county lady has injured her legs and feet, so she should rest and recuperate. I, Lu, don't worry about her."
She smiled apologetically, "How can I not be concerned about you? You're injured too! In fact, I came here today to check on your injury." She glanced at the back of his hand, "Is your hand feeling better?"
Lu Shiqing came back from Yuan Mansion yesterday and wrapped the wound with medicine and gauze. He looked down and said, "It has been properly treated. There is nothing serious."
"I brought medicine for wounds. It's an ointment made from a recipe that my father has been working on for many years. It can't be found in ordinary places." As she spoke, she took out some bottles and jars from the medicine box.
Yuan Cixian wanted to leave after putting down a few bottles of medicine, but then she thought of the embarrassment she had just experienced and wanted to make amends. She said, "I'll change the medicine for you and re-bandage your wound."
Lu Shiqing hid his hands back in his sleeves: "I dare not trouble the county lady, please leave the medicine. I am already very grateful."
Another cliché.
Yuan Cixian was not very happy. She ignored him and directly ordered several maids beside her: "You guys, bring me two basins of clean water."
The servants in the Lu residence were much more obedient than Lu Shiqing. Even after she glared at them, they dared not disobey due to her status and went to fetch water obediently.
Lu Shiqing frowned: "After I change the medicine and bandage the wound, will the county lady be willing to return home?"
Yuan Cixian nodded with a serious expression.
He could only sigh and lower his head to remove the gauze.
Yuan Cixian stood up with the medicine box, remembering to act as if she was limping. When she got close to him and saw the hideous back of his hand, she was shocked and even lost her respect for him: "Is this how you look like you've dealt with it properly? You don't want this hand anymore!"
There was a thin, bright red scab on the back of his hand, and the deeper wounds showed signs of suppuration, which was truly shocking.
Lu Shuangyu, who was standing by, was also terrified. She asked with wide eyes, "Brother, why are you so badly injured?"
Thinking that he might be embarrassed to answer, Yuan Cixian explained for him: "My brother beat him." Then he turned around and ordered, "Bring salt powder, hot water and cotton towels."
She said and grabbed his hand.
It is said that the ten fingers are connected to the heart. When Lu Shiqing grabbed her, his heart seemed to be numbed by some strange force. He subconsciously wanted to pull out his fingertips, but he heard Yuan Cixian shouting: "Why are you hiding? I'm not going to eat you!"
His whole body stiffened and he stood still.
Lu Shuangyu and all the maids in the room gasped.
This was a very strange sight. Someone had actually touched their husbands—someone had actually touched their husbands and not been knocked over.
Lu Shiqing himself also felt that something was wrong. After the "fight" in the countryside, his tolerance for skin contact seemed to have increased. Just now, he just restrained himself slightly and suppressed his disgust.
Yuan Cixian waited for the servant to come, and in front of him, she washed her hands with clean water, then soaked them in salt water, picked up a cotton handkerchief and said, "It will be a little painful, please bear with it, you can scream if you can't help it."
“…” She wanted to know how a grown man could scream.
Yuan Cixian had someone bring a chair and sat down in front of his knees. She pinched his fingertips with one hand and wiped them with a cotton towel soaked in salt water with the other hand.
The salt water should have been painful when it touched the wound, but Lu Shiqing felt itchy and couldn't help but shiver slightly.
Yuan Cixian thought he was in pain and didn't take it seriously. She asked as she was busy, "Since you treated it, it doesn't make sense for it to be this bad. Did you apply medicine powder to the wound before?"
He was silent for a moment, then said "hmm" calmly.
Of course, he didn't wrap himself in powder, but he covered himself with a layer of makeup powder before going to Yuan Mansion yesterday. The effect was quite good, and with the wide sleeves, there was no flaw at all, but it did aggravate the injury. He originally planned to change the medicine early in the morning, but was delayed by several official documents.
Yuan Cixian sighed: "You should use ointment on this wound, not powder. If your hand is broken, I..."
She suddenly stopped talking here.
Lu Shiqing raised his eyes, as if waiting for her to continue.
Yuan Cixian wanted to say that if his hand was disabled, her brother would be in big trouble. When the words came to her lips, she saw that he seemed to have a little expectation in his eyes, so she immediately pouty and said, "I'm so heartbroken!"
Lu Shiqing sneered at her exaggerated acting in his heart, but he didn't expose her out loud. He just glanced at her coldly.
Lu Shuangyu stared at them from the side, her mouth drooping with grievance. Not only was she missing out on breakfast, but now she had become such a superfluous existence.
She once thought that the cruelest thing in the world was that the man she loved was actually a young lady, and a young lady who was prettier than she was. But now she knew that this was not the cruelest thing. What was even more sad was that this young lady actually wanted to be his sister-in-law.
Yuan Cihan continued to work with her head down.
The thick yellow dirty water was squeezed out bit by bit. Lu Shiqing looked at it and his stomach churned. He raised his eyes and saw that the person opposite him was very patient. His long eyelashes fluttered and his expression was unusually gentle, as if he was sincere to him.
Seeing that her bandaging technique was skillful and experienced, and the folded corners of the gauze were hidden so tightly that it looked like a piece of ornament in just a few moments, Lu Shiqing felt a little strange.
He suppressed his curiosity at first, but when she finished and washed her hands with water from a basin beside her, he could not help but test her: "The county lady's technique of bandaging the wound is superb."
It is always nice to be praised. Yuan Cixian did not expect that he was trying to trick her, and said proudly, "In the past, when the military doctors were too busy, I often went to help."
Lu Shiqing was slightly stunned, frowned and asked: "In the army?"
Her face changed slightly, and she stared at him for a while, and finally said frankly under his sharp eyes: "I went on a military march with my father..." After that, she came closer to him, bent down and whispered, "My father told me not to tell anyone, so as to avoid being spread by people with ulterior motives... You have to keep it a secret for me."
Lu Shiqing sat on the chair and looked up at her, nodding slightly. The King of Southern Yunnan was the only prince of a different surname in the Great Zhou Dynasty, so naturally he attracted a lot of attention and aroused jealousy. If a woman joined the army, it might be a good reputation for others, but if it was the Yuan family, it might be talked about in a dirty way.
Seeing that he agreed, Yuan Cixian smiled at Lu Shuangyu again: "Miss Lu, you too."
When she smiled, her eyes were as bright as crescent moons, making it impossible to say no. Lu Shuangyu nodded without even thinking.
Yuan Cixian turned around to pack up the medicine jars, while telling Lu Shiqing which bottle of medicine to change at night. Then he remembered something and turned around to ask, "Minister Lu, I have something to say to you. Can you ask Miss Lu and these servants to leave first?"
Lu Shuangyu grabbed Lu Shiqing's sleeve and asked her cautiously, "What do you want to do to my brother?"
Yuan Cixian looked innocent. What could she do? Seeing her like this, she found it funny and said in an ambiguous way, "It's the elders' business. Don't interfere."
Lu Shiqing coughed uncomfortably.
Seeing that he looked embarrassed and didn't know where his thoughts were, she added with a smile: "It's really a matter for the elders. Minister Lu, it's about the Uighur caravan. I have some concerns that I want to explain to you."
Lu Shiqing's wandering thoughts were immediately cleared. He straightened his back and said calmly, "Everyone go down."
After everyone in the room had left, Yuan Cixian sat opposite him and asked, "Minister Lu, do you know what kind of arrowheads are in the Uighurs' cargo?"
Of course Lu Shiqing knew, but he replied: "I am investigating the case for the Saint, and I am only responsible for reporting the truth. I don't care about anything else."
She had no choice but to say, "I'll tell you what I think. You can tell me if it makes sense. These three-winged arrowheads are not ordinary toys, but military weapons. From the Ji family in Wuxing to Jinxiu Manor in Chang'an, and then to this group of Uighur merchants... This is definitely not just a small fight."
Lu Shiqing casually echoed "Yeah".
"But as the matter becomes more involved and involves important figures, I feel that there may be an element of frame-up."
Lu Shiqing paused for a moment, then raised his eyes and asked, "What do you mean?"
"There are too many suspicious points. For example, the caravan and the gatekeeper were in a particularly ostentatious standoff in front of the West Market. Another example is the flaws easily revealed by the shop assistants and the shopkeeper in Jinxiu Manor. Another example is the seemingly tight but actually full of loopholes in the defense of the bungalow in the suburbs. I initially thought that they might just be doing some shady little business, but when I saw those arrowheads and thought back to what happened that day, I found it strange. How could someone who could do such a 'big thing' make such low mistakes so frequently? Maybe someone wanted to use this to frame someone else, so they deliberately arranged these things for people to find out."
At the end of her speech, she quietly observed Lu Shiqing's expression, but saw that he looked normal and said, "Lu has understood. Tomorrow I will report the county lord's intention to the saint and ask him to make the decision."
It was the same attitude of keeping people at a distance and not revealing anything. Yuan Cixian couldn't find out anything, so he had to give up.
The room was silent for a moment. After a moment of silence, the two of them suddenly turned their heads to look outside the lattice and asked in unison, "Who?"
Something fell to the ground with a "bang". The person who was hiding outside the lattice and trying to eavesdrop slowly picked up the thing and walked in.
It was Lu Shuangyu who had returned with a guilty look on her face.
Lu Shiqing scolded coldly: "Who taught you this skill of eavesdropping?"
Lu Shuangyu pouted and said, "I didn't hear it, you two have such sharp ears..." She glanced at Yuan Cihan, "I didn't mean to do that. I saw that it was cloudy outside and I was afraid it would rain later, so I came to bring an umbrella to the county lord." As she spoke, she raised the oil-paper umbrella in her hand.
Lu Shiqing knew that she was just looking for an excuse, so he said sternly, "How dare you quibble? Have you not copied books for a long time? Are your hands itching?"
Lu Shuangyu looked aggrieved: "Brother, why do you have to be so mean to me in front of outsiders... I have never seen you say a single mean word to the county lady..."
As she spoke, her voice became softer and softer. Yuan Cixian felt uncomfortable when she heard the word "outsider", but after hearing the rest of the sentence, she suddenly felt happy.
Lu Shiqing had never been so mean to her.
As soon as she was happy, she was ready to help Lu Shuangyu out, and said generously: "Okay, okay, eavesdropping is something I do all the time, it's no big deal."
Lu Shiqing glared at him.
What's the matter? After using his servants, I now have to discipline his sister for him
Yuan Cixian saw that he was unhappy, so she cleared her throat and said, "But don't do it again next time. It's me today, but if it's an important guest, it will be embarrassing for your brother."
Lu Shiqing thought this made sense, so he glanced at his sister and asked, "Did you hear that?"
Lu Shuangyu looked at the two people who were singing the same tune with mixed feelings and nodded: "I understand."
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