Zhuzhu ate little but quickly. After finishing her meal, she couldn't sit still and wanted to go outside to set off firecrackers.
Zhou Tao saw her glancing outside and stood up. "Zhuzhu, are you full? How about your second aunt takes you out to play with firecrackers?"
"Mother, is it okay?" Zhuzhu asked Limai with bright, sparkling eyes.
Even if she is smart and sensible, she is still just a child, with the innocence and mischievousness of a child. Especially firecrackers, which are not something that can be played with casually at ordinary times. They can only be played with to one's heart's content during the New Year.
Today, when her father and uncles set off firecrackers, they specially left a bamboo basket for her so she could play with them one by one.
Li Mai nodded, "Okay, go have fun, but be careful not to blow your fingers out."
"Don't worry, Mother, Zhuzhu will be careful." Zhuzhu replied happily, then looked at Zhou Tao, "Auntie, let's go!"
Zhou Tao and Zhu Zhu went out to play with firecrackers. Lu Qian glanced at the closed door, not daring to say in front of the Zhou family that he also wanted to go out, and just kept his head down and quietly ate his food.
Zhou Tao played with Zhuzhu for a while, then asked her in a low voice, "Zhuzhu, do you still have the white ointment you applied to your aunt last time?"
Her face was burning, and her eyes darted around, afraid of being discovered asking a child for something, but she would be even more embarrassed to ask her sister-in-law for it.
"Auntie, are you talking about that white stuff you put on when you scrape your skin?" Zhuzhu asked her aunt curiously.
"Yes, that's it. Do you have any extra?" Zhou Tao asked.
"Yes, Auntie, come with me to get it!" Zhuzhu pulled Zhou Tao back to her room in the Zhou residence, rummaged through a small wooden box, and opened it to find various bottles and jars of different sizes and colors.
Zhou Tao was stunned.
"Zhuzhu, are all of these ointments?"
"No, there's medicine, powder, and pills. Zhuzhu and her mother made them when they had nothing to do. Here, Auntie, this is for you. Apply it to the broken skin for a few days to prevent scarring. Mother says girls should be beautiful and shouldn't have scars." Zhuzhu placed a small white porcelain jar in Zhou Tao's palm.
"If you gave this to your aunt, do you have any more?" Zhou Tao asked.
"Yes, here it is, a big jar. It's a small porcelain jar I bought, which I put in myself. It's convenient to carry around with me," Zhuzhu said with a smile.
"Okay, thank you, Zhuzhu. Is there anything you want? Auntie will buy it for you when I go out." After taking the things from the child, Zhou Tao thought of buying something for the child as a token of her gratitude.
"Then, Auntie, could you make me a bag? The kind I can carry on my back, so I can carry whatever I want when I go out each day." Zhuzhu's eyes lit up as she thought of what she wanted.
“Okay,” Zhou Tao replied.
After everyone finished eating and came out to the courtyard to digest, Lu Qian also took his leave.
As he was leaving the mansion, he saw Zhou Tao's guard standing by the gate and subconsciously glanced at him again.
He knew that this was someone Yun Chang had given to Li Mai, and that Li Mai had arranged for him to protect Zhou Tao. He was very grateful for the person who usually protected Zhou Tao, but when he thought that he couldn't be by Xiao Tao's side every day, while this person could, he inexplicably felt a sense of wariness towards Zhu Qiang.
It's not uncommon for young guards to fall in love with young ladies. Especially since this guy is dressed so flamboyantly, all in black, and wearing a patterned mask, he seems even more mysterious, making it hard not to arouse curiosity.
Zhu Qiang watched as Lu Qian sized him up, then bowed to him and extended his hand, saying, "The Second Miss asked me to give this to you."
Lu Qian was taken aback. Huh?
Seeing him lost in thought, Zhu Qiang placed the white porcelain jar in his hand into his palm and said calmly, "Apply the ointment to the broken skin once a day. If you persist for a period of time, it can remove the scars."
After briefly reciting Zhou Tao's instructions, Zhu Qiang bowed to him once more before turning and leaving.
Lu Qian looked at the small porcelain jar in his hand. The jar looked familiar, like something fired in his own kiln. But wasn't this something that only workshops that made rouge would use?
As he strolled home, he quietly opened the box and took a sniff. It smelled wonderful, so he figured his sister-in-law or Zhuzhu must have made it with Doctor Niu's help.
Did Xiaotao ask them for this as a gift? So, she knows about the scraped knee?
Lu Qian, instantly sensing Zhou Tao's concern for him, suddenly shouted happily and jumped up a big tree by the roadside. He looked in the direction of Zhou's house for a while before happily going home.
Upon returning to the mansion, he went straight to his courtyard, entered the house, sat on the couch, quickly took off his cotton boots, and pulled up his underpants to expose his knees for a quick look.
Sure enough, her knee was scraped and bleeding. The blood was on her underwear, while the scraped skin on her leg had already scabbed over.
If he had seen it any later, the scar might have already fallen off.
Lu Qian looked at the small white porcelain jar beside him. This was the first time Xiao Tao had ever cared so much about his health. He absolutely couldn't let his knees have scars. What if Xiao Tao didn't like it after he had scars?
Therefore, Lu Qian did not hesitate to wipe the wound clean with a damp cloth, and then carefully used his fingers to scoop out some white ointment and apply it slowly.
After that, he sat quietly until the ointment on his knee was absorbed and there was no ointment left on the surface. Only then did he change his underwear and wash it himself, trying to remove the bloodstains from his knee.
Young Master Lu's strange behavior was secretly reported to Madam Lu by the servants.
Madam Lu's expression changed instantly. As someone who had been through similar experiences, she could roughly guess what had happened to her son.
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