It was because of the poison and because he left the silver ingot. Luo Lingyu hesitated for a moment and stretched out her hand: "Wait a minute."
The girl reached out from the tent, hooked her slender hand around his sleeve and pulled it. Lu Sanlang lowered his eyes and looked behind him. He heard Luo Lingyu in the tent say concisely: "You look so tired today, it's easy to arouse suspicion. Wait a minute, I'll help you put on some powder to cover it up."
Lu Yun froze, looking somewhat uncomfortable. He said softly, "Thank you very much, Sister Luo."
After a while, Lu Yun returned to the couch where he had slept for a night and sat for a while. The candle behind the screen was lit. Luo Lingyu hurriedly put on an outer shirt, tied the belt of her inner garment tightly, and casually tied her long hair with a jade hairpin. In her hand, she held a makeup box. She sat on the couch, placed the small table on the couch, and opened the makeup box. Pearl powder, pollen, stone black, lip balm, nail paste and other women's makeup items were packed in small round boxes of different colors, and Luo Lingyu took them out.
She put some powder on the tip of her little finger and applied it on Lu Yun's face.
Lu Yun stepped back with some resistance.
Luo Lingyu raised her eyes and said, "Don't move."
She said: "This is pearl powder..."
Lu Yun was surprised and whispered, "Using pearls to make powder? Luo Lingyu... are you rich or poor?"
Luo Lingyu raised her bright eyes and said teasingly, "It seems that my third cousin really knows nothing about girls' affairs. Pearl powder is not made by grinding pearls, but by crushing the kernels of the flowers of the Mirabilis jalapa and steaming them. After it is made, it is called pearl powder."
It was rare that Lu Sanlang's eyelashes trembled. Luo Lingyu saw that his face froze for a moment and looked a little embarrassed.
The girl combined several different colors and gently rubbed his face with her warm fingers to help him change his complexion. Seeing her behavior, Lu Sanlang felt relieved. Luo Lingyu must be teasing him. She was very skilled and must do this often. Lu Yun stared at her bare face. The injuries still brought him pain intermittently, but he was thinking in a mess: Maybe beautiful women are good at makeup?
Luo Lingyu is an expert among them.
The girl's hands became cold after being stained with powder, and she rubbed them on the man's face at will. In the dim light of the early morning, in order to see his face clearly, the two of them stood very close to each other, breathing in and out. Deliberately, casually, their eyes met, their wide sleeves touched, their fingers touched from time to time, and the breath of each other was transmitted to each other vaguely.
Lu Yun lowered his eyes and saw her thin spring dress with long belt. The dress was in shades of green. The white jade belt hung from her chest, sticking to her full chest, passing over her waist, and hanging on her skirt... Her eyes suddenly raised and collided with Lu Sanlang's eyes as deep as the sea.
The fingers on his face stopped moving for a moment.
Lu Yun's eyes turned dark and he stared at her quietly.
The atmosphere was so subtle. Outside, the maid turned over and heard a faint sound. Outside the window, birds and insects chirped softly. In the house, men and women sat quietly, breathing close to each other. Luo Lingyu suddenly jumped up and stepped back, almost knocking over the incense boxes on the table. She turned around in a hurry: "It's almost done, you can go!"
After a long time, there was no movement behind her. She could feel the cool wind blowing on her face and dress from behind. Feeling cold behind her, Luo Lingyu slowly turned around and saw that the window pane beside the couch had been pushed open. The peach blossoms outside the house were rustling and falling. A few pink petals fell into the window and drifted into the jade boxes containing powder boxes. She couldn't tell whether it was peach pink or rouge red.
The man who had been sitting on the couch just now was gone.
Luo Lingyu lowered her eyes, stood still for a moment, then cleaned up the place and went back to sleep behind the screen. When she got up again, she was woken up by the maid Lingyu and other women. Lingyu helped the girl get up and wash, and instructed the other maids to change the fragrance in the room. Before opening the window, Lingyu took a breath and smiled in surprise, "Madam, the air here is really good. I didn't open the window all night, but I didn't feel stuffy at all. There is still a hint of freshness."
That's because someone had opened the window earlier.
Thinking about being in the same room with Lu Saburo, breathing the same air all night... After a moment of silence, Luo Lingyu pretended to change the subject casually: "Is everyone awake? What are the cousins doing?"
Lingyu told the truth: "Prince Hengyang is here, and he wants to practice archery. The girls are very supportive. Madam Han found it interesting, so she suggested that the girls practice archery today..."
Luo Lingyu was initially suspicious: The King of Hengyang? Was this person responsible for Lu Sanlang's injury last night? Otherwise, she could not imagine why Lu Sanlang would hide in her place.
Then I was surprised: What? Archery? I can't do it!
She asked hurriedly, "Do the girls agree?"
Lingyu said "hmm" and didn't notice Luo Lingyu's stiff face. She remembered something again: "Oh, right, haven't we not seen Lu Sanlang for two days? When I was delivering breakfast to the gentlemen and ladies just now, I heard a maid say that they had seen Lu Sanlang."
Lingyu exclaimed in surprise: "Lu Sanlang is really elusive."
Luo Lingyu pointed at the table with her fingers, as if she was thinking about something, and said nothing.
After the girls had finished packing, they wanted to watch the men play with bows and arrows, and they also wanted to play archery, so it was inconvenient to stay in Taohuayuan. Luo Lingyu followed the girls reluctantly and heard them suggest going to a hill with many trees to shoot arrows. From what they said, it would be best if they could hunt some rabbits or wild boars.
King Hengyang laughed loudly; they had touched his heart.
Prince Liu Mu of Hengyang glanced at Lu Erlang and Lu Sanlang, and then at the attendants behind them. There were not many men coming to Zhongshan this time. Even if the coachmen were included, there were only about twenty people in total. To find the assassin last night from these twenty people... Liu Mu touched his chin, his eyes narrowed sinisterly. Either it was very easy to find, or his men had made a wrong analysis.
But if the analysis was wrong, it would mean that the assassin was more powerful... Liu Mu's face became even uglier.
After two days, Lu Erlang was speechless when he saw his brother again. Lu Yun went back and changed his bloodstained robe into a white shirt. Lu Xian saw that Lu Yun's face was fair and his appearance seemed more beautiful than usual, and he couldn't help but look at him a few more times. Lu Yun was in the breeze and the moon, and there was no smile on his face, looking very cold. However, even Lu Erlang couldn't help but look at him a few more times, and the girls over there naturally kept their eyes on him.