Chapter 389: Chapter 145: Genius dical Officer_4
She clenched her fingertips slightly, pursing her lips and remaining silent.
The man took another step closer.
Lu Tong’s body tensed subtly.
The other person frowned slightly, staring intently at her face as if trying to see her features clearly and distinctly. Looking straight ahead, one could see the delicate embroidery at his collar and the faint, bitter scent of dicine.
He stared for a long ti, so long that even Lin Danqing started to feel sothing was off and was about to speak up. However, the Xiao dicine Boy, seemingly having thought of sothing, eyes lighting up, reminded aloud, "Young Master, you have t this dical Officer before, on Que’er Street, on the rainy day when soone dirtied your clothes with rainwater from their umbrella, delaying your banquet... It was this dical Officer who wet your clothes!"
Upon hearing this, both standing individuals were montarily startled.
The embroidery on the collar of the person in front seed to blur into the night air, growing increasingly indistinct until it transford into the dismal autumn rain of Que’er Street.
At that ti, it was just after the tribute exams had ended. Liu Kun had died, Wang Chunfang had gone mad, their two sons were locked in cages, and she had witnessed the Liu Family’s downfall. But as she turned away, she was startled by the Qi Family’s carriage and her umbrella accidentally poked a passerby.
Lu Tong still rembered that the other person, dressed in pure white robes, stood in the light rain; he seed a blurry silhouette, distant as if painted in watercolor, walking past her and gradually disappearing into the crowd, like a moist illusion after the rain.
Now the illusion had beco reality, solidifying into a more silent shadow in the night.
For a mont, no one spoke.
Noticing the peculiar atmosphere, Lin Danqing couldn’t help but tug on Lu Tong’s sleeve, offering a smile to the young man and saying, "Doctor Ji, it’s getting late. If there’s nothing else, we’ll be taking our leave."
The other person returned to his senses and without saying anything more, nodded faintly to the two of them before leading the attendant up the stone steps.
After he left, Lin Danqing finally sighed with relief.
As if casually, Lu Tong asked, "Who was that just now?"
"Ji Xun."
"Ji Xun?"
Lin Danqing was surprised, "Have you not heard the na Ji Xun? That shouldn’t be. The old n at the Hanlin dical Institute talk about him all the ti, phrases like ’exceptional in dical skills even before his coming-of-age ceremony’ or ’though his family are not Scholars, any common family with his skills could amass a fortune’... I’ve heard it so often at the Imperial dical Bureau when I studied there that I’ve grown callouses on my ears," then sighed, "Such a graceful Young Master, yet just seeing his face makes
feel annoyed."
Lu Tong inquired, "His family are Scholars?"
"Of course, his father is Master Ji, an Academician of Guanwendian, his grandfather a Hanlin Academician, and his elder brother a Scholar of the Fugwenge. A family of civil officials, but this genius dical Officer, he takes delight in dical arts rather than following in his father’s footsteps in the civil service, instead coming here to tornt us."
"Younger Sister Lu, you may not know, but before you appeared at this spring’s examination, I was always first in the verification at the Imperial dical Bureau, but this year with you, I dropped to second. Our pair is considered the ’Twin Prides of the Apricot Grove’ at the dical Officer Institute, but he, not even a capped adult and he’s already been summoned by the Empress Dowager to serve in the palace, holding a sinecure at the dical Officer Institute."
"We are the ones answering the questions, yet he’s the one setting them. This year’s insidious questions in the Imperial dical Bureau’s spring exam were all from Doctor Ji’s hand. Just look, possessing a face gentle as water, but with such a ruthless heart."
She let out a long breath after saying all this in one go, not even seeming tired, then heaved another sigh, "I heard he left on a trip so days ago and thought it would be a while before he returned. Little did I expect him to co back so soon. Now and then, he cos up with these bizarre questions to test us, signaling the end of good tis for us new dical Officers, I fear!"
She lanted on her own while Lu Tong turned back to look towards the stone steps, where the shadows of the two n were no longer visible in the night, only the swaying branches of the locust tree trembling gently in the wind.
As the night breeze whispered through, a single locust blossom was knocked loose by the wind, fluttering unsteadily before floating down in front of soone, only to be trampled by a green boot.
Their steps suddenly faltered.
"Sothing’s not right."
The Xiao dicine Boy walking in front paused, instinctively glancing at the person beside him, "Young Master, what’s wrong?"
"The location’s wrong."
The young man stopped walking, frowning and saying, "The first ti I saw her, it wasn’t on Que’er Street."
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