Chapter 23 Pei Lang
Xiahou Shu led Yunxi slowly out and arrived at an alley. Seeing that there was no one around, she turned into an inconspicuous small yard.
In Muchun Garden, there are a large number of famous scholars, scholars and martial arts masters recruited by Xiahou Yuan. These people have unique skills and have their own strengths. They gather together as a ball of fire and disperse the stars. They are also a powerful support for Xiahou Yuan's military career and a veritable think tank.
Among them is a young aide who is proficient in medicine, named Pei Lang.
I heard from the butler that Pei Lang was an orphan, picked up by Pei Yunchen who went up the mountain to collect herbs. At that time, he was still in his infancy and was dying from hunger. Pei Yunchen probably felt that he had been abandoned in the mountain for several days, and was not starved to death or taken away by wild animals, so he barely kept him by his side and named him Pei Lang, which was called his master and apprentice.
As Pei Lang grew up day by day, Pei Yunchen discovered that he had the talent to study medicine. He could quickly remember the medical knowledge in books or the herbs in the mountains, and could accurately say their effects, usage and dosage. Pei Yunchen was overjoyed and felt that he had a successor in his good medical skills, and he paid more attention to it since then.
When Pei Lang was twelve years old, Pei Yunchen brought him to the Duke of Yue’s Mansion.
Xiahou Yuan was attacked many times when he was young. Once, he and his soldiers were dispersed and seriously injured. He finally escaped from the siege. He was exhausted and tired and fell into a cave. Fortunately, he met Pei Yunchen who went up the mountain to collect herbs and saved his life. He heard that Pei Yunchen was going to stay in the Duke of Yue's Mansion, Xiahou Yuan agreed without saying a word and ordered people to quickly clean up a small courtyard.
So Pei Yunchen and his disciples lived there like this, and they lived there for more than ten years, and the small courtyard they lived in became a well-known medicine house in the mansion.
Over the years, the staff in the mansion came and went. Some people lived and some died. Some people became officials, rose to prominence and were full of ambitions; some people discovered the troubles, stayed away from the court, and were idle in the wild cranes; some people were fishing in the troubled waters, relying on their achievements in the past to fill in the house of Duke Yue and just lived a life of just a matter of life. Only Pei Lang had no desires and no desires, Da Yousheng was the man of Duke Yue, and death was the ghost of Duke Yue. Even though his master Pei Yunchen had passed away for many years, he had been living alone in the medicine house in Muchunyuan. Every day, he either held a medical book to see it from morning to night, or locked himself in the house to tinker with medicinal materials and study new recipes. Occasionally, he would go to the mountains to collect herbs, and he could not see anyone for several days.
Although Pei Yunchen is good at medical skills, he has a bad temper and stubborn temper and often yells and scolds Pei Lang. Pei Lang grew up in such an atmosphere and is relatively introverted. He is neither good at speaking nor socializing, so he basically has no close friends, no confidant or wife and children.
After Pei Yunchen passed away, Pei Lang lived in simplicity, so he was very inconspicuous among a group of staff who were good at expressing themselves. Fortunately, he had superb medical skills, and people in the mansion usually had headaches and fever, and basically didn't have to go outside to hire a doctor. Often, it was only at this time that everyone would think of him.
Xiahou Shu had a good relationship with Pei Lang, and he also valued his medical skills.
She is a martial arts practitioner and a person who can do it. She often suffers minor injuries. The reason for the injury is not convenient to inform others, so she can only find ways to treat and maintain it by herself. Pei Lang has superb medical skills, simple interpersonal relationships, and a tight mouth. In the long run, he will have a tacit understanding.
Of course, there is another important reason, that is, she once heard from Xiahou Yi that when her elder brother Xiahou Chong was still there, she had a lot of friendship with Pei Lang and often played chess with him.
Xiahou Chong was such a proud person. Pei Lang could catch his eyes. This person must be not simple, at least not as simple as he seems.
Xiahou Shu put away his memories, but before she could step into Pei Lang's medicine house, she smelled a strong smell of Chinese herbal medicine, and she knew that Pei Lang was showing off the precious medicinal materials he had collected from all over the place.
She went into the yard along the hidden gate and saw that the yard was neatly filled with bamboo dustpans of different sizes. Each dustpan was filled with different medicinal materials, including precious varieties such as Ganoderma lucidum, ginseng, deer antler, as well as common common medicinal materials such as Gastrodia eucommia, Eucommia ulmoides, Angelica sinensis, and some of them that she could not name. Various medicinal materials were very strong under the sun, and the various odors were intertwined and looked a bit strange, so that other staff members in the palace were reluctant to approach his yard at all. However, this was in line with Pei Lang's wishes, allowing him to concentrate on studying medical skills.
Xiahou Shu didn't understand medical skills, and she didn't focus on these medicinal herbs. She stood in the yard and glanced around, but didn't see Pei Lang, so she walked straight into the house.
Pei Lang was indeed grinding medicinal materials in the room, and he was fully focused, meticulous and gentle.
Hearing the footsteps, Pei Lang slowly raised his head and saw that it was Xiahou Shu. A warm and bright smile suddenly appeared on his face, like a sunflower blooming in the fields.
"Miss Three is here. You can sit next to you and wait, and the medicine you want will be cured soon." Pei Lang said and continued to tinker.
Xiahou Shu took the opportunity to glance at the powder grinding in his hand, nodded, found a stool, sat down and watched him make medicine quietly.
Xiahou Shu did not dare to let anyone know about the injury in Huguo Temple, except Yunxi and Pei Lang, who was rigorously speaking. The mansion was full of people, and even in Qingfeng Pavilion where she lived, she could not tell which ones were loyal to her and which were her mother's eyeliner. So when she bathed or changed clothes, she never left maids other than Yunxi and Yuhu to serve in the room, for fear that one day she would be seen and then talked to her mother's ears.
Yuhu is like Yunxi, both the eldest maid in her room, taking care of her money box and warehouse. A few days ago, Yuhu's mother was seriously ill, so Xiahou Shu allowed her to go home to serve her.
Over the past few days, Xiahou Shu has been paying great attention to the treatment and maintenance of wounds. He heard that Pei Lang has developed a plaster to remove blood stasis and scars, but after the medicine is made, it can only maintain its effect for three days, so she came to Pei Lang for medicine every now and then.
Later, she thought that her wound healed so quickly was not just due to the timely Jinchuang medicine given by the man in purple, but the most important thing was to rely on Pei Lang's superb medical skills.
Pei Lang did not shy away from Xiahou Shu's gaze. He calmly ground several medicinal herbs into powder, then poured in half a cup of amber paste and mixed it carefully. His expression was very solemn throughout the process, as if he was doing an extremely sacred thing.
"Brother Pei, how old are you this year?" Xiahou Shu suddenly asked.
Pei Lang looked up at Xiahou Shu in surprise and smiled, "I am three years older than the eldest son, and I am twenty-seven years old this year. The third girl asked this, do you want to find a marriage for me?"
Xiahou Shu was stunned for a moment, thinking who said that Pei Lang was introverted and not good at speaking. He was obviously very good at speaking! He would joke with her.
Speaking of marriage, Xiahou Shu heard that when Pei Yunchen was alive, he had planned to marry Pei Lang, but he didn't know what happened in the end, so the matter was left in nothing.
In fact, Xiahou Shu sometimes doesn't quite understand why no woman has ever fallen in love with Pei Lang for so many years. If they know him a little more, they will find that in addition to being unkind of words and socializing, Pei Lang can stand the test in both appearance and character. With the blessing of superb medical skills, it is okay to support his family or even buy land. He is a man who is very suitable for living at home. Moreover, with his kind and kind nature, he will never be bad for his partner.
"Did Brother Pei think about getting married?" Xiahou Shu said curiously, "Or do you have any women you like? I heard you once said a marriage."
When asked about personal privacy suddenly, Pei Lang didn't feel embarrassed. He thought for a while and said honestly: "If I tell you that I never thought about getting married, do you believe it?"
"I believe it." Xiahou Shu said, "because I never thought about getting married."
Pei Lang smiled slightly, looking at conscious.
Yunxi was panicked and looked at Xiahou Shu and said, "Miss, what nonsense are you talking about? How can a woman not want to get married?"
Xiahou Shu smiled and pointed at himself and said, "I am a woman, but I really haven't thought about it."
Yunxi still couldn't accept it and frowned and said, "But even if you think so, you can't just talk to Dr. Pei about this kind of thing."
"Why can't you say it?" Xiahou Shu said in confusion, "Can you tell Brother Pei, or can't you tell everyone?"
"Of course, I can't talk nonsense to anyone." Yun Xi looked puzzled, "What's more, Dr. Pei is a man and the girl has not yet been married. How can she say such things?"
Xiahou Shu laughed in silence and said, "Brother Pei and I treat each other honestly, and my heart is as bright as the moon. How can I hide it and deliberately deceive me just because he is a man and I am a woman?"
"Oh!" Yun Xi couldn't say anything about her, and stomped her feet in a hurry, "If outsiders hear you, will your reputation still be there?"
"Famous is important, but the friendship between me and Brother Pei is also important." Xiahou Shu disagreed and said, she glanced at Pei Lang, "And I heard that Brother Pei's birthday was the same day as my brother, but the year was different, so I treated Brother Pei like my elder brother. Why should so many rules be paid attention to between brothers and sisters?"
This time, not only Yun Xi was surprised, but even Pei Lang walked for a while and was so conscious.
Xiahou Shu said this without saying that he was very sincere, at least seven or eight points. It is probably because of which day Pei Lang’s real birthday was probably the only one who knew his biological parents, who didn’t know whose surname, knew that his current birthday was calculated from the day his master picked him up. Perhaps because of this, Xiahou Chong would have noticed him in the past. It is also because of this that he never celebrated his birthday again after Xiahou Chong’s death.
But in this mansion, besides his parents and brothers, Pei Lang is the one who knows Xiahou Chong the best, so Xiahou Shu had to approach him and please him, and then found that he was indeed a person worthy of close friendship.
After Pei Lang prepared the ointment, he found a white wide-mouth porcelain bottle from the wooden cabinet to pack it. He carefully wiped the ointment sticking to the seal of the porcelain bottle with gauze before handing it over to Xiahou Shu, and told her to apply it to the affected area in the morning and evening as usual.
Xiahou Shu took the ointment and handed the bag of pearls he brought to Pei Lang, saying, "Last time, you said you wanted to find some good quality pearls to mix a beauty cream. Just a moment ago, my second brother came back from a trip and gave me a bag. It was not very useful for me to keep it. I just thought it was borrowing flowers to offer Buddha."
Pei Lang opened the bag, grabbed a few smooth and round pearls and looked at the sunlight. He felt like he had a treasure. He sighed a few words "very good". Then he smiled, and did not pretend to refuse, but only thanked Xiahou Shu and accepted them all.
Xiahou Shu likes to deal with Pei Lang, not only because he is skilled in medical skills and has little nonsense, but also because of his intelligence and knowledge of the general.
Make a plan with smart people, be generous and open-minded, stop when you click.
Chapter completed!