Lu Yun lowered his eyes and smiled: "I have also said that my friendship with King Chen will never be severed."
He raised his eyebrows and said jokingly, "Unless my second brother kills me?"
"You——" Lu Erlang was angry and refused to listen to his third brother.
The two gentlemen turned their backs on the girls and argued in the back. The farsighted girls were thoughtful, and they felt that the arrival of Prince Hengyang had brought something to Jianye. The girls with poor political sense surrounded Luo Lingyu, asking her what else she and Lu Sanlang had done on the mountain besides archery, and then envied Luo Lingyu in a sour tone.
"Did your third cousin really teach you archery? If I had known, I would have said that I am not good at riding and shooting."
"It turns out that I can get the attention of Lu Saburo even though I don't know anything. That's great."
Luo Lingyu rolled her eyes at their naivety: You won't get Lu Sanlang's attention if you don't know anything. If you want to get his attention, you have to be two-faced, let him catch you at your worst, and be threatened by him to feed you poison... Can you do it? !
The episode of the King of Hengyang coming and going in a hurry did not have much impact on these ladies from the aristocratic families who were out for a mountain outing. After the King of Hengyang left, they were still very excited and stayed in Zhongshan for two more days. On the last day, the ladies took the two gentlemen of the Lu family to worship in several temples on the mountain. When going between temples in the mountain, Luo Lingyu took the silver ingot given by Lu Yun. Apart from burning incense, she could not even afford to donate money for incense. Coming out of a Buddhist temple, Luo Lingyu ran into the Han family girl outside the door discussing with the abbot about making a golden statue for a Buddha.
Luo Lingyu said enviously, trying to hide her sour stomachache: "How much does this cost..."
The Han girl was not very confident and said, "Talking about money is so vulgar... I'm mainly afraid of what my parents will say about me."
The girls nodded and talked about their own worries: "Yes, it's all about worshipping Buddha. Wouldn't it be more pious to make a golden statue of Buddha? But my father won't let me do anything rash."
"My brother spent more than a month entertaining a poor scholar for no apparent reason. He wasted much more than I did!"
"It's good to entertain poor people... My sister is even more terrible. She ran to a mountain to learn mural painting from a nun. In the end, she found out that she was cheated. She was so angry that she refused to go out for a month..."
"I heard that, hehe. How is your sister now?"
Luo Lingyu kept a perfect smile and listened to them talk about all kinds of gossips in the famous families. Sometimes she would interrupt the topic at the right time and talk about some interesting things about the nobles she had seen in Ruyang and Nanyang. The cousins were very surprised and were also very interested in the nobles outside Jianye. They asked Luo Lingyu if the customs and habits in the north were very different from those in Jianye in the south.
In fact, when talking to them, they were curious about the outside world, and Luo Lingyu was extremely jealous of them. The heroic deeds they casually told were all because they had confidence and the family was protecting them behind them. And she... was from a wealthy family with a deep foundation, which made people yearn for it. Being in it, Luo Lingyu could not move her feet after seeing the tip of the iceberg.
The girls walked out of the temple and chatted. Luo Lingyu saw from the corner of her eye that the two men from the Lu family were following them not too far away and were almost out of sight. Lu Erlang met a master, hesitated, and followed the monk into the temple to interpret his dream. Luo Lingyu also knew that Lu Erlang seemed to have had some kind of dream, but Lu Erlang would not tell anyone, and Luo Lingyu did not know what kind of dream it was that made Lu Erlang so concerned.
After Lu Erlang left, Lu Sanlang was alone. Without his second brother's urging, Lu Sanlang's heart was very relaxed when he was strolling. He walked slower and slower, and in the end, he could not even see his shadow. Luo Lingyu was also tired of walking. She was shocked that these girls could walk too fast. She found an excuse to turn around and walked back to find Lu Sanlang.
Antidote! Antidote!
She helped him coax Hengyang Prince Liu Mu, but how come Lu Yun had no self-awareness at all? Two days had passed, and he didn't take the initiative to find her to give her the antidote?
Although she was a little skeptical, Luo Lingyu decided to find Lu Yun in person to confirm her guess.
Lu Sanlang and Lu Yun were standing in front of the bamboo forest behind the temple, admiring the Buddha paintings on the wall. The Buddhists were kneeling devoutly on the cushions, and smoke was rising from the murals. It was as if the mortals were ascending to the altar of the gods, and seeing the Buddhas in person. Lu Yun stood under the wall with his hands behind his back, his expression was cold and distant, and outsiders would think that he was noble and unattainable. Lu Yun suddenly turned his head and looked to the right. A girl walked over on the forest path on the right.
Her appearance and stature were both first-rate, but she didn't walk gracefully at all, instead she limped...
Lu Yun thought: When I saw her from behind just now, wasn't she walking normally? How come she looked like this in the blink of an eye? Could it be that she felt that her true colors were exposed in front of him, and he was so disgusted with her that she was too lazy to even pretend?
Lu Yun pursed his lips and asked lazily: "Lame?"
Luo Lingyu: "...You are the one who is lame!"
It was just that these girls were so strong on their feet that it was really hard for someone like her who didn't like to move to follow them around Zhongshan for three or four days. She also felt that after this matter was over, it would be best not to deal with Lu Sanlang again in the future, and she felt relieved. When she got closer, she saw Lu Yun's sleeves move a little, but she didn't think he was coming to help her. Luo Lingyu leaned against a long bamboo, raised her chin to him, and said concisely: "Where is the antidote?"
Lu Yun's eyes narrowed slightly.
After a while, the coldness between his eyebrows disappeared, and a carefree and lazy look brushed his eyebrows. The bamboo forest was quiet and green, and I could occasionally hear the gurgling of spring water and people laughing in the distance. In the near distance, the man looked down at the girl, and his lips seemed to be stained with a hint of teasing: "Antidote... Has Sister Luo been feeling unwell these two days?"
Luo Lingyu thought for a moment and said, "Nothing wrong."
Lu Yun sighed and his eyelashes trembled.
Luo Lingyu immediately became nervous: "What's the problem?"
Lu Yun took out a small bottle from his pocket, removed the cork, and poured out a brown pill. Luo Lingyu looked at the pill between his jade-like elegant fingers, and vaguely felt that it looked exactly like the poison that Lu Yun fed her that day... She thought for a while, and watched Lu Yun hand her the pill, and said slowly: "The antidote for my poison is to fight poison with poison. Take another pill and it will be cured."