39 Yuzhi Powder
◎The face of the person and the sunset glow
Panax notoginseng, angelica, white angelica, turmeric...
They are all medicines that promote blood circulation and eliminate impurities.
After seeing Wen Tingluan shaking his head, Tian Nongxi understood.
Then he asked, "Where is the prescription you wrote?"
Tian Yaozu ran over to get it.
She spread it out and handed it to Wen Tingluan, but sure enough, she still couldn't see anything.
"The problem isn't the medicine. Could it be that he took or touched something that counteracted the medicine?"
Feeling the trusting look, Wen Tingluan smiled enjoyably for a while, then said that these were mild medicines, and even if they counteracted each other, they would not cause the wound to fester.
To be on the safe side, Tian Nongxi asked Tian Yaozu to tell him in detail what he had eaten and touched in the past two days.
"I ate candied haws today." Tian Yaozu swallowed, then looked at Tian Nongxi and said awkwardly, "Sister, don't be angry. Grandma said you don't like sweets, and that eating candy at your age will cause freckles, so she didn't buy you any."
"Yeah, at my age, eating it would cause plaque," Tian Nongxi continued slowly. "But at your age, you'd get cavities, and your mouth would be full of bugs."
Tian Yaozu clutched the corner of his clothes tightly, lowered his head and licked all his teeth with his tongue, trying to prove that his teeth were still good.
The nasty sister interrupted him, "Tell me what you ate and touched after you got the medicine last time and before you get the medicine this time."
"Nothing." This time he shook his head decisively. "I had dinner at home. I didn't go out. I was studying in the house the whole time."
Tian Nongxi was in a dilemma.
She looked at Wen Tingluan for help, hoping he could say something to break the deadlock.
The man who noticed her gaze paused for a moment before asking, "When did the wound become so festering?"
As soon as he finished speaking, bursts of coughing were heard from inside the room.
"Sister, grandma is awake!" Tian Yaozu was sweating profusely after being interrogated by the two men, and now he finally felt relieved.
The two looked at each other, and Tian Nongxi got up first and walked towards the main house.
Behind her, Wen Tingluan, who shouldn't have been involved in this matter, followed closely.
"Grandpa, go pour grandma a cup of tea." Huang's face was pale, and her voice was weak. She waved at her slowly, "Second Mother, come here."
As soon as Tian Nongxi approached, Huang grabbed his hand and placed it on the bed. The back of his hand was completely covered by Huang's palm, and was instantly wrapped in coolness.
Huang said calmly, "I won't live long." As if this was no big deal.
She looked truly horrible—her eyes were deeply sunken, her pupils were dilated and lifeless, and the wrinkles on her face were dry, without even a trace of moisture, almost drooping to the corners of her lips, which she barely managed to hold together with her cracked lips.
Even breathing was difficult, and with every breath, the withered body under the bedding would rise and fall heavily.
Tian Nongxi lowered his eyes to look at the back of his hand that was gently covered, and said, "Just see a doctor. I'll go get a doctor right away."
Huang continued on his own.
"You two have experienced the death of your parents one after another, and now you have to go through the pain of losing your grandparents one after another. I am sorry for you."
"There's been no news from your eldest brother. He's probably dead. Your second uncle... I went to ask about it today, and he's going to be in prison for at least decades."
"Once I'm gone, you two will be the closest people to me in this world. For the next few decades, you two will have to support each other..."
Tian Nongxi interrupted her and asked in confusion, "Why are you only telling me?"
"We are the closest people and need to help each other. Why are you only telling me?"
"A-Zu is still young and doesn't understand things. You have to help him first. People are all made of flesh and blood. If you treat him well, he will naturally treat you well when he grows up." Huang has his own logic.
"Go find your second aunt and ask her to help A-Zu." Huang was already regretting not remembering this method earlier, tears welling up in her eyes. "A-Zu is her son, she won't refuse to help."
Huang didn't know that Tian Nong Le was having an affair, but in Tian Nongxi's eyes, Zhuang Xueling was kind enough not to add insult to injury.
So she reminded him, "Second uncle has divorced."
"Divorce..." Huang covered her chest and gasped. After a while, she recovered and continued stubbornly, "She won't refuse to help..."
"What exactly is she helping with? What can she do? She's not a doctor." Tian Nongxi was already annoyed by being dragged into this, and her tone wasn't very pleasant. "Isn't it important that we ask the doctor to take care of you now?"
"A-Zu has become the young master, and you are the young lady." Huang propped herself up and moved closer, whispering in Tian Nongxi's ear, "He can help you, and this will be good for you."
Tian Nongxi laughed in anger, "Are the Zhuang family members stupid?"
Seeing that she was stubborn, Huang leaned back on the head of the bed, covering her mouth and nose and started coughing.
"She is also responsible for A-Zu's current condition. Why don't you go find me?" He was about to get out of bed as soon as he finished speaking.
Tian Nongxi reached out and pressed down her quilt, "Grandma, just rest assured and take care of yourself."
"You little girl..." Huang's eyes were filled with suspicion and confusion. "How can you manage such a big house without a man to help you? She has been supporting Grandpa for several years. If Grandpa passes the imperial examination, it will be a glory for her."
"I'll find a doctor for you." Tian Nongxi stood up and prepared to leave.
Huang sighed, but she had no strength to stop her and could only watch.
Before he reached the door, Tian Yaozu came in holding a bowl of water.
Tian Nongxi moved sideways to let him in.
"Grandma, we're out of tea."
As soon as Tian Yaozu finished speaking, the porcelain bowl fell to the ground with a "crash" and the hot water in the bowl splashed everywhere.
She subconsciously looked back, but could only see the figure blocking her way.
His broad shoulders blocked her view, and their hands were tightly held under his wide sleeves.
Noticing that Wen Tingluan was exerting unusual strength, she did not shake off his hand, but took a step forward in this posture until she was shoulder to shoulder with Wen Tingluan.
Only then did she see the inside of the house clearly.
Huang leaned against the head of the bed, panting heavily, her face, like a dead branch, showing a strong expression. Her gray eyes were staring at him intently, and she was muttering to herself.
Tian Yaozu was still holding the bowl, staring blankly at his different grandmother, standing at the head of the bed, at a loss.
It turned out that Tian Yaozu didn't accidentally break the bowl.
Tian Nongxi frowned briefly, patted the hand of the person next to him who was holding his hand tightly, and walked straight towards Huang after being released.
She finally heard what Huang was saying.
The old man's expression was distorted, and his fingers twitched. He raised his hand tremblingly and pointed outside the house, "Go find... the banker..."
"...Okay." Tian Nongxi felt tired even to sigh, so she agreed casually. However, Huang asked her to promise again before letting her leave.
When Tian Nongxi and Wen Tingluan walked out of the main house, Tian Yaozu had not yet come to his senses. She guessed that the two of them had something to say, so she closed the door and didn't call him.
"It's so late, are you going out?" Wen Tingluan looked up at the setting sun in the sky.
"What will I do if I don't go out..." Tian Nongxi said half sighing and half jokingly, "Maybe I can even get a free meal if I go now."
Not hearing the laughter he had imagined, Tian Nongxi suspected that his joke was not funny and casually glanced at the people beside him.
Wen Tingluan looked normal.
She always didn't dare to look at him for too long. Now she wanted to look away after a quick glance, but she stopped when she touched a certain place.
"What happened to you? Were you hit?" She carefully picked up the corner of Wen Tingluan's clothes on his lower abdomen, looking at the place in front of her that was soaked with liquid and was several degrees darker than the surrounding area, her tone was full of uncontrollable tension.
"It's nothing serious." Wen Tingluan smiled.
If it was just a water stain, it would be fine, but the area in front of my eyes was getting deeper and deeper. It was just a small area, but it had gradually spread in just a moment.
Tian Nongxi put his nose close to it and sniffed, and was choked by the strong smell of blood and coughed twice.
She looked up, her eyes filled with obvious anger and a hint of barely perceptible tension.
Wen Tingluan explained, "Ahem, I was accidentally hit just now."
Seeing that the person in front of him had a strange expression, he scratched the tip of Tian Nongxi's nose, tilted his head and asked, "Xiaoxi, can you apply the medicine on me?"
Tian Nongxi retracted his expression, raised his intact hand, and asked suspiciously: "Did your hand get hit too?"
"It hurts so much, my hands are shaking." Wen Tingluan said it with details.
"Okay, okay, okay." She felt guilty, so she agreed to everything.
Wen Tingluan half-led and half-pulled her to sit on the stone bench, and she watched him take out an exquisite small porcelain bottle from his pocket and hand it to her.
Tian Nongxi took it and glanced at the object in his hand casually. Wen Tingluan noticed and patiently explained, "This is Yuzhi Powder, made from herbs such as snow lotus. It can stop bleeding and regenerate new tissues. If you like it, Xiaoxi, can I give it to you?"
Tian Nongxi uncorked the wooden stopper from the bottle and muttered, "Are you cursing me to get hurt?"
Unexpectedly, Wen Tingluan shook his head seriously and said, "I was worried that I wasn't around when you got hurt."
"You're a doctor." Tian Nongxi lowered his eyes to hide his emotions and ordered, "Take it off."
"Trouble you, Xiaoxi." Wen Tingluan undressed in no time and placed his hands on the stone table, watching the person pouring the medicine powder.
The faces of people and the sunset are red.
"Tell me if it hurts." Tian Nongxi took the powder and twisted it with his fingers, then held his breath and touched Wen Tingluan's bloody wound.
She heard a very soft "hiss" and was too frightened to move. She looked up at Wen Tingluan and said hesitantly, "Why don't you do it yourself?"
Staring at her closely with those deer-like eyes, he seemed like the only beast in the forest she trusted.
Wen Tingluan's Adam's apple moved slightly, and his voice was a little hoarse, "I want Xiaoxi to come."
So Tian Nongxi lowered his head again, frowning and thinking as if this was a difficult problem.
The wound is in the lower abdomen, and a few centimeters below it is somewhere else.
But she couldn't help but touch other places while moving, and could only feel the increasingly tense body of the person in front of her.
I had only caught a quick glimpse before, but now after a closer look I realized that Wen Tingluan's figure was even better than I remembered.
His hands covered the thin muscles and kept rubbing them, and Tian Nongxi held his breath involuntarily.
Before she could finish wiping it all off, her hands were restrained.
Wen Tingluan wanted to say that he would come alone, but when the words came to his lips,
"Didn't Xiaoxi bandage me? Why are you blushing?"
He squinted his eyes and looked at the dyed earlobe of the person in front of him.
Wen Tingluan said that when the two of them first met, Tian Nongxi already regarded himself as his savior, "Who told me to be so eager to save you back then?"
"Besides, you were unconscious then, and it's different from now..."
"What's different?"
Wen Tingluan asked himself and answered, "It turns out that the sunset glow is too red today."
After saying this, he fell silent.
She could only feel the burning gaze.
The time spent applying the medicine felt like a year. Tian Nongxi wanted to speed up but couldn't guarantee the severity of the injury, so he had to take it slowly.
After finally finishing bandaging all the wounds, her back was already soaked with sweat.
Tian Nongxi leaned in and blew away the excess powder. He breathed a sigh of relief and said to himself, "That's it."
She looked up and found that Wen Tingluan's expression was not right. A thin layer of sweat appeared on his forehead, slightly wetting the strands of hair on his temples.
"What's wrong?"
Wen Tingluan felt like he was torturing himself. He could only stare at the "criminal" and utter a single word with difficulty, "Hot."
Tian Nongxi stood up, put away the medicine, and said firmly: "Night sweats only occur when the body is weak."
After she said this, she walked away, and naturally she didn't notice the rising and falling breathing of the person behind her.
After changing clothes, Wen Tingluan had returned to normal. He stood under the pomegranate tree with a graceful and elegant demeanor, making the pomegranate tree look like red coral.
Tian Nongxi reported inexplicably, "I'm going to the Zhuang Mansion."
"Give your brother a try. This is a secret palace recipe, created by several imperial physicians who have devoted their entire lives to making it."
"Okay." Tian Nongxi accepted it and thanked with a smile.
She was not positive about Tian Yaozu's injury. Such a horrific wound did not seem like it could be cured by a bottle of medicine powder, but she still did not want to refuse Wen Tingluan's kindness.
"I'll go with you."
"……good."
Unexpectedly, Tian Nongxi agreed so quickly. Hearing this, Luan raised an eyebrow and swallowed the prepared excuse.
The sun set quickly, and the moon was already high in the sky when the two of them just walked out of Tianjia Village.
Tian Nongxi looked at the bright moon and suddenly asked, "What did I call you?"
"Hmm?" Wen Tingluan smiled.
"You call me Xiaoxi, what should I call you?"
"Wen Tingluan? The Crown Prince? Your Highness?" She sighed with genuine emotion, "I'm at such a loss."
Smell? Listen? Feel?
So weird again.
"How's Fuzhang?"
"This is my calligraphy. Mountains overlook the Wei River, and green peaks reach the sky."
"Afu and Azhang are also acceptable." Wen Tingluan became interested and gave another example, "Tingting, Luanluan, Ating, and Aluan are also acceptable."
"I'm a few years older than you, so you can call me brother."
"You don't like either? Tan Lang is also fine."
After being punched by Tian Nongxi Bangbang, he still stubbornly recommended, "Sir, it sounds very good too."
【Author’s words】
"Rocks tower over the Wei River, and green peaks reach the sky." - Li Shimin
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