Chapter 526: Chapter 187 Jasmine_2
Lu Tong felt the sa way.
When she looked at her again, there was a touch more of sympathy in her eyes.
Lu Tong noticed that expression.
Her hand tightened around the teacup as she lowered her head and took a sip of the tea in her hand.
The tea was dicinal, fragrant and bitter, its strong dicinal sll causing one to frown.
Perhaps it was because she had been drinking too much Sweet Syrup lately, she was not quite accustod to such a bitter taste. Oddly enough, she suddenly missed the cold White Lotus Dew that Pei Yunng had handed her outside the window on a windy sumr night.
It was sweeter than this.
As she drank her tea, her rolled-up sleeve fluttered, revealing a faint red mark on her elbow.
Ji Xun’s gaze paused.
After a mont, he frowned and said, "Why hasn’t your wound healed yet?"
Lu Tong was startled.
"Immortal Jade Skin Ointnt is quite effective in scar removal, whether it’s from cuts, sword wounds, burns, or scalds. Once you apply this ointnt, the scars fade quickly. Why is yours still visible after more than a month?"
Having spoken, he reached out toward Lu Tong’s wrist, "Let
see."
Lu Tong drew back.
Instinctively, she reached out, lowered her sleeve, and covered the faintly red mark.
Ji Xun was puzzled, "You..."
She quickly said, "I didn’t use it."
"What?"
Lu Tong steadied herself, regained her composure, and said, "Jade Skin Ointnt is precious, I couldn’t bear to use it, so these days I’ve just been applying ordinary ointnt to the wound. The Jade Skin Ointnt Doctor Ji gave
has been put away."
Ji Xun frowned as he stared at her, shook his head disapprovingly after a while.
"dicine is an inanimate object and not as precious as a living person. Though your injury is not fatal, if the scar remains for too long, it might not be removable in the future. You should apply it in ti."
He stood up, pulled open a wooden drawer behind him on the bookshelf, and took out two new jars of Jade Skin Ointnt and placed them in front of Lu Tong.
Lu Tong said, "Doctor Ji..."
The Jade Skin Ointnt was precious; the nobles in the palace could only get one jar, and yet he was generous, giving away two jars at once.
"This dicine was made by ," said Ji Xun. "It is not precious to . You can take it and use it. If it runs out, I’ll have Zhu Ling send you more."
He looked toward the Xiao dicine Boy preparing the dicine outside.
The Xiao dicine Boy quickly nodded his head.
Lu Tong stared at him, Ji Xun’s gaze was firm. After a long stalemate, she could only lower her head and reluctantly accept it.
...
After leaving Ji Xun’s dicine room, Lu Tong let out a slight breath of relief.
Returning the White Jade to its rightful owner, she had settled an old matter and should have felt relieved, but for so reason, her recognition by Ji Xun did not bring the pleasure she had imagined.
It was heavy.
Strangely, despite eting Pei Yunng again after many years, her mont of realization was just a brief surprise, and she accepted it as if it were only natural. Yet speaking with Ji Xun always kept her on edge, never daring to relax for a mont, her feelings even more complicated.
Perhaps it was because Pei Yunng had already seen her most genuine and malicious side, making her unguarded. But Ji Xun...
Lu Tong gripped the strap of her dical box tightly.
In Ji Xun’s eyes, she was just a poor, tragic orphan who had been bullied and had struggled through hardships to get to the dical Officer Institute.
Maintaining a facade of a kind and honest person to accept soone’s sympathy and charity always left one feeling sowhat uneasy.
Turning the corner and returning to her dormitory, Lin Danqing was sitting at the window fanning himself.
Seeing her co in, Lin Danqing rose from his bamboo lounge chair and said, "Chief Physician asked to deliver a prescription to Mingxian Temple. There’s nothing to do this afternoon in the institute, so co with ." He leaned in close to Lu Tong’s ear and whispered, "It’s a good chance to go to Qiaon and buy so sweet lons to eat."
Lu Tong agreed, set her dical box on the table, then opened the wooden cabinet door and put the two new jars of Immortal Jade Skin Ointnt inside.
Small as they were, the porcelain jars felt heavy in hand.
Lu Tong looked down at them and sighed in her heart.
In the past, Pei Yunng would often call her "creditor," and now she sowhat understood Pei Yunng’s feelings.
Owing soone a favor truly felt worse than being owed.
...
Pei Yunng, whom Lu Tong had just thought of, was currently unaware of her emotions at this mont.
In the small room, half a figure was hidden behind a screen, slightly leaning over, writing characters on a piece of silk paper on the table.
The handwriting was bold and unrestrained, as though guided by the heart, which was nothing less than the poem "The Quails Scamper."
The quails scamper, the magpies stretch. The man who lacks goodness, I take as my brother!
The magpies stretch, the quails scamper. The man who lacks goodness, I take as my lord!
When Pei Yunng walked in, Prince Ning Yuan Lang had just finished the last stroke. Seeing him approach, Yuan Lang set aside his brush, looked up, and smiled at him.
Pei Yunng nodded and greeted, "Your Highness."
The late emperor had a total of five princes.
The forr Crown Prince Yuan Xi, the second-in-line is now Emperor Liang Ming, and Prince Ning Yuan Lang is the youngest.
Yuan Lang was not the son of the late emperor’s Empress, but just a common palace maiden from Huanhua Court. Yuan Lang’s mother passed away when he was very young. The late emperor pitied him for losing his mother at a young age and raised him at the Empress’s side.
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