Chapter 319: Chapter 127 Lu Min_3
What did he see?
Lu Tong instinctively wanted to look back, but as she moved, Pei Yunng held her shoulder, not waiting for her to react. A shadow enveloped them, and Lu Tong’s cheek touched his cool garnt.
Pei Yunng stood in front of her.
The passing crowd did not glance their way more than once, as during the Lantern Festival, there are plenty of lovers strolling at night.
Lu Tong was almost entirely wrapped in his shadow, her head against his chest, at an intimate distance where she seed to hear his soft yet strong heartbeat, beating one after another.
It was exceptionally clear amidst the surging tide of people.
After an unknown amount of ti, the hand pressing on her eased a little.
He let go of Lu Tong.
"Whom did you see just now?" Lu Tong turned to look behind her, but the side was full of Flower Street’s visitors, revealing nothing suspicious.
Pei Yunng’s abrupt actions were likely because he saw soone else. The mont he pulled Lu Tong in front of him, she did not miss the coldness in the bottom of Pei Yunng’s eyes.
"Soone you would not want to see," Pei Yunng said with an unconcerned smile.
He did not answer Lu Tong’s question.
Lu Tong pursed her lips, not liking the feeling of being kept in the dark.
Probably sensing her unease, Pei Yunng stepped back, lowered his head to look at her, and suddenly said, "Doctor Lu."
"What is it?"
"The Qi Family is investigating you."
Lu Tong’s expression flickered, staring at him without speaking.
"They’ve only traced Lu Rou, not you yet," he said in a casual tone, as if offhandedly reminding her. "But if this continues, there’s no guarantee you won’t be exposed."
With that, Lu Tong understood.
The people from the Grand Preceptor’s Mansion might suspect the Lu Family, even the long-missing "Lu Min," but they would not suspect her, Lu Tong, for the ti being.
Simply because, nominally, Lu Tong was just a commoner female doctor from out of town, the Resident Doctor at the Renxin dical Hall, with no connection to the Lu Family of Changwu County.
But if she were to take revenge, once she approached Qi Yutai, her identity would be exposed sooner or later.
Pei Yunng was reminding her of this.
"I understand," Lu Tong said. "Has the Qi Family made any other moves?"
Pei Yunng raised an eyebrow, stared at her for a long while, and seeing her expression open and honest, finally spoke with a hint of amusent, "Now, you’re not even pretending in front of , are you giving up altogether?"
She was so brazenly asking him for information, with no attempt to conceal it.
"Didn’t Lord Pei say we were on the sa side?"
"Not anymore."
Lu Tong scoffed inwardly.
When he didn’t know her identity, he insisted on staying at the dical hall despite his injuries, constantly reminding her they were "on the sa side." Now that he knew she had co for revenge, he seed eager to distance himself imdiately as not to attract trouble.
The son of a powerful and noble family, always savvy in weighing pros and cons.
While she was sneering inwardly, a familiar voice ca from afar, "Miss! Miss!"
Lu Tong turned to look and saw at the other end of the crowd, Yin Zheng standing in front of the theater pavilion, waving at her energetically. Upon seeing her, Yin Zheng smiled, lifted her skirts, and started making her way through the crowd towards her.
They were already close to the theater pavilion. It seed that Yin Zheng and the others had realized they had beco separated from her and had specifically co here to wait for her.
"Your friend has arrived," Pei Yunng noticed Yin Zheng as well.
Lu Tong faced him, it was ti for him to leave.
His gaze lingered on the Toad Lamp in Lu Tong’s hand for a mont, then moved to her face, before he finally said, "I wish Doctor Lu every success in the spring examination in March."
Lu Tong nodded, "Thank you for your kind words."
Pei Yunng said nothing more and left. After a few steps, however, he stopped and called out to Lu Tong.
Lu Tong asked, "Does Lord Pei have anything else to say?"
He was silent for a mont before speaking in a subdued voice, "There will be more dangers in the future."
"Doctor Lu," he said, "be careful."
The man’s figure disappeared into the moving throng of people, and Lu Tong stood in the glow of the hanging lamps until a voice rang out beside her, "Miss, I’ve finally found you!"
Yin Zheng managed to push through the crowd to Lu Tong’s side, patting her chest with relief, "Ah Cheng finished buying the rice dumplings, and when we turned around and you were gone, it gave
quite a scare. Shopkeeper Du said you would be waiting for us near the theater pavilion, and I didn’t believe him, but luckily he was right." After speaking, she stared curiously at the Toad Lamp in Lu Tong’s hand, "Where did this lamp co from? Miss, you didn’t bring any silver..."
"Soone gave it to ," Lu Tong lowered her head and touched the toad’s head. The green toad’s mouth was so wide open that it looked comically ridiculous.
"Oh," Yin Zheng seed to take it at face value, nodding and looking around a bit more.
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