Cai Qi knelt upright, with his arms stretched straight, and his head hung low. He was afraid of coming into contact with Fu Jiuqu's eyes. He looked like he had committed a serious crime.

Fu Jiuqu slowly stood up.

Cai Qi could hear his footsteps, but after waiting for a long time, he did not come over. Instead, he walked to the window, opened the window, and let the fierce cold wind blow in, blowing the curtains high.

"Chonglou."

Cai Qi raised his head with a grimace on his face.

"If you want to kill or behead me, it's up to you. You... just don't scare me, okay?"

Fu Jiuqu looked back at him, "Are you cold?"

Cai Qi responded awkwardly with a grimace, "Cold."

Fu Jiuqu pointed to a chair opposite him: "Sit down and talk."

Cai Qi was kneeling on the ground. Seeing how calm he looked, he was even more frightened and raised his knife.

"Anyway, we are brothers. If you want to deal with it, you can just do it... give it a good death. I don't blame you."

"Humph!" Fu Jiuqu narrowed his eyes and looked at him. There was a smile in his eyes, as bright as starlight. The curve of the corners of his lips was so gentle that there was no hint of annoyance at all. He gave Cai Qi so much goosebumps to look at him.

"Chonglou, stop pretending. I know you've heard it all... Yes, this time it's our brother's fault. We didn't avoid the suspicion that we should have avoided. It caused rumors to spread and lost your face. But no matter how big the mistake is, the most

Are you going to apologize by dying? You scare me like this, which makes me feel more uncomfortable than killing me..."

Fu Jiuqu came closer, grabbed his shoulders, and lifted him up. He looked at him coldly, "Is the Imperial City Secretary not busy enough?"

"What?" Monk Cai Qizhang was confused.

"Go down and give them more work. When you get busy, you won't have time to gossip."

Cai Qi: "???Chonglou? Are you serious?"

Fu Jiuqu looked indifferent: "Huh? Am I not serious?"

Cai Qi: "Aren't you angry with me?"

Fu Jiuqu raised his eyebrows without any trace, "Why are you angry?"

Cai Qi: "Me...with that Cao Yilan?"

Seeing how he was stammering, Fu Jiuqu's face darkened slightly, and he said with a bit of lazy teasing, "Do you like her?"

Cai Qi shook his head hurriedly, threw the knife on the ground, and told the truth of what happened that night.

However, it would irritate Fu Jiuqu, so he still concealed some details.

"Anyway, that's it. Cao Yilan and I are innocent. In fact, nothing happened... But this matter is embarrassing. I'm afraid there will be endless gossip in the future..."

"It's okay." Fu Jiuqu sat back nonchalantly, picked up a cup of tea, and sipped it slowly, "If you don't like Cao Yilan, just pretend it didn't happen. If you like it, you still have a chance."

As he spoke, he lazily raised his eyelids and glanced at Cai Qi.

"Tell me when you think about it."

"I don't like it." Cai Qi's voice was raised, "How can I afford to offend a little lady like Cao Yilan? Look at my face, it almost disfigured me... When I see her in the future, I

They all have to hide and go..."

After venting his words, Cai Qi felt that it was inappropriate to talk about his brother's fiancee, so he cleared his throat and changed the topic.

"Chonglou, do you want to marry Cao Yilan now?"

Fu Jiuqu narrowed his eyes and said, "Marry."

Cai Qi raised his eyebrows, "You really don't mind?"

Fu Jiuqu glanced at him and raised his lips, "Wouldn't this be better?"

Cai Qi didn't know what Fu Jiuqu said about "better". Anyway, he felt very guilty. Although he knew Fu Jiuqu didn't like Cao Yilan, he still felt ashamed of him.

So, after spending a long time in Fu Jiuqu's study, Cai Qi took away a piece of tea from Shugang, Yangzhou, and finally believed that Fu Jiuqu was really not angry with him.

However, rumors were spreading, and even if Fu Jiuqu didn't mind, Cai Qi felt ashamed to see anyone in the Imperial City Department, so he volunteered to go to Shouzhou to investigate the fragrant medicine case.

Fu Jiuqu agreed.

The fragrant medicine case implicated countless officials, and the source is still in Shouzhou.

In this intricate network of relationships, no one sent by Fu Jiuqu to Shouzhou would be as convenient as the young Marquis of the Founding Marquis Mansion.

Moreover, who is more trustworthy than his brothers?

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Before the opening, Xin Yi reorganized the Sun Family Pharmacy and specially set up an inner room for the "inpatient ward" to facilitate the use of patients who needed doctor's care.

But she didn't expect that she would become the first patient admitted.

The female relatives lived behind the medicine shop, and it was inconvenient for Zhou Daozi to come in and out, so Xin Yi simply lived in a ward that was separated from the lobby by a wall, so that Zhou Daozi could come and go freely.

Zhou Daozi took the initiative to come to the medicine hall for a consultation and solved his urgent need. Xin Yi was truly grateful.

Otherwise, the pharmacy will close down the day after it opens, which will really cause trouble to the whole world.

Zhou Daozi practiced medicine all his life and had a lot of experience, but his temper was not very good. In just three days, Xinyi heard him scold his patients at least ten times.

He is old and has a bad mouth. If he complains like later generations, this old Zhou will definitely have his license revoked in less than three episodes. However, what surprises Xin Yi is that all the patients scolded by Zhou Daozi are honest

, respected the doctor very much, and would obediently take medicine and treat him when he was scolded. No one brought his relatives to the doctor to make trouble.

Convinced!

There are Zhou Daozi and Mrs. An in the shop, so there is no problem in running it.

On the fourth day of her recovery, Xin Yi felt much better and regained some strength. However, she was not allowed to get out of bed to work, so she could only lie in bed boredly day after day.

Really unable to bear it, Xin Yi asked her husband to bring over the "Fragments of the King of Medicine" and "Chen's Materia Medica" hidden in the room...

Before I had read two pages, I heard crying from next door.

Because of Wen Zi's death, Xiang Ling looked depressed all day long, his eyes were swollen from crying, and he shed a lot of tears behind his back.

What makes Xiang Ling even more angry and uncomfortable is Wen Zi's family. Her daughter has been confirmed dead. Except for her mother, who took her brother to identify the body, she has ignored her since then. Xiang Ling's mother said that she was afraid of being exposed.

Funeral expenses, I don’t want to collect the body.

Xin Yi turned a page of the book, and Xiang Ling sobbed.

She couldn't stand it anymore and said, "My dear, help me up."

My beloved was tinkering with the charcoal stove in the corner. When he heard this, he turned around and said, "Master Cao said you are not allowed to get out of bed to do anything."

Xin Yi was funny, "I don't do anything, I just pee."

"..." My beloved straightened up, "Just wait, I'll get the chamber pot."

“No need.”

As she spoke, she stretched out her hand to support her waist and accidentally touched the injured area.

There was a little pain, but more of a numbness.

She touched it lightly, and strangely, an unusually hot emotion penetrated into her heart.

When she was bitten by a snake and fell into a semi-conscious state, the man treated her. The feeling of sucking the poisonous blood with her mouth seemed to be engraved in her mind. She could vaguely recall the softness of the man's lips, and even had an intuition that he was Fu Jiuqu...

But unfortunately, no one admitted it.

They told her that Fu Jiuqu took her into the room, laid her down, and soon returned home. Her clothes were put on by Sun Huai for her, and the wounds were treated by Zhou Daozi himself...

Very smooth plot.

No problem.

But Xin Yi just felt something was wrong.

Could it be that snake venom entered her brain and caused memory damage?

My beloved looked at her fingers rubbing her waist and sighed, "Just lie down obediently. Master Cao has brought a lot of books. If you are really bored, I will get some more for you. But Master Cao said, only

You are allowed to watch for half an hour, and your eyes are not tired..."

Xin Yi was brought back to her senses by her husband's nagging and stared at her angrily.

"Who do you belong to? I told Master Cao that I might as well give you to Master Cao as a girl. Anyway, you listen to him so much..."

"Where can I be? My sister has wronged me."

Her husband also sincerely did her best, but seeing that she was in good spirits today and promising to just walk in the yard and talk to Xiang Ling, he agreed and stretched out his hand to support her.

"Be careful. If your waist is injured, don't twist it."

Before staying in bed, Xin Yi felt that she was alive and well, but as soon as she opened her legs, she found that her body was weak and her waist was so stiff that sweat broke out on her forehead.

Too weak.

Is this the Bianjing Hercules?

Xin Yi motioned to his beloved to let go of his hand, "Let me go and let me walk by myself. If I continue like this, I will soon become a useless person."

"No." My beloved refused flatly.
To be continued...