[Lu Hua] Beauty Fragrance

Chapter 41

In the dim light of the torch, on the tall tree, there is a lump that is out of place. Looking carefully, it seems that a piece of red cloth is covered with snow, and the red cloth still has slight undulations.

Dots of dim light under the tall trees fluttered slightly, green like emerald green, scattered like ghostly fire, and when the fire light moved, the wild wolves showed their fierce light.

Huatan rubbed his forehead, handed over the torch in his hand, pulled out the Liuyun whip coiled around his waist, and murmured: "If you don't hurt others, we don't have to make such a debt." "

The guards behind Huatan had already drawn their swords, looking at the wolves with burning eyes, eager to try, one excitedly said: "These wolf skins can be sold for a lot of money!"

Hua Tan glanced at him and said: "I know the money! We are here to save the two young masters! After a while, you restrain the wolves, and I will go up the tree to pick up the two young masters."

The guard closed his mouth in resentment, and everyone shook their swords and prepared to fight the wolves who were already in full battle, but they suddenly heard Hua Tan say: "Be careful, don't cut the leather surface!"

The guards smiled knowingly when they heard the words, and rushed into the pack of wolves holding their swords.

Hua Tan hugged the unconscious Huamanlou, another guard carried Lu Xiaofeng who was also unconscious on his back, and the rest of the guards all had wolf tails in each hand, dragging the wolf all the way down the mountain.

Lao Zhang, who was driving the ox cart, was still waiting at the foot of the mountain. If he hadn't noticed that the momentum was wrong today, he hurried back to the city to look for the families of the two children. There are no bones left from the wolf's gnawing, and tomorrow it must be frozen into two ice sculptures.Hua Tan was grateful, and inquired about Lao Zhang's address, and said that he would definitely come to pay his respects sometime later.

Lao Zhang was a neat person, and he didn't refuse. He even helped drive all the wild wolves to Hua's house with a bullock cart, and the matter was finally over.

However, not long after Huamanlou returned to the mansion, the entire Huamansion became tense again. It turned out that Huamanlou suffered from the wind and cold, developed a high fever, and fell into a coma for two days. It must all be spit out soon.

Hua Ruling rushed home to visit in person, Mrs. Hua looked after Hua Manlou in her clothes, and she lost a lot of weight.

When the two children were brought back, the culprit, Lu Xiaofeng, was still in a coma. When Huamanlou developed a high fever, Mrs. Hua even sent someone to the Lu residence to tell Mrs. Lu to be more careful. Unexpectedly, Lu Xiaofeng just fell asleep for two days. On the third day, when he woke up in the morning, he was alive and kicking, and he jumped out of bed to find Huamanlou.

Mrs. Lu grabbed Lu Xiaofeng's baby and checked it carefully. After confirming that the child was not frozen, she grabbed Lu Xiaofeng by the collar and slipped Lu Xiaofeng into the ancestral hall at home like a chicken.

Mrs. Lu threw Lu Xiaofeng to the ground, Lu Xiaofeng instinctively turned over and fell down, supporting the ground with one hand, but she was not injured, but Mrs. Lu kicked him lightly behind his knee, and Lu Xiaofeng knelt down on the ground.In the twelfth lunar month of winter, the blue bricks on the ground were as cold as ice, Lu Xiaofeng was caught off guard and knelt down, with a "boom", it was cold and painful, and he couldn't help but groan.

Mrs. Lu said with a cold face: "Article [-] of "The Analects of Confucius""

Lu Xiaofeng knelt down neatly, lowered his head and recited: "Disciple, when you enter, you will be filial;

Mrs. Lu said angrily: "It's unbelief to lie to the teacher! It's imprudence to think carefully! It's unfilial to make parents worry! It's inhumane to put friends in danger! You, admit it!"

Lu Xiaofeng lowered his head deeply and murmured: "I know I was wrong."

Mrs. Lu: "Qitong is seriously ill and unconscious"

Lu Xiaofeng was startled when he heard the words, raised his head to look at Mrs. Lu, and Mrs. Lu also lowered her head to look at Lu Xiaofeng, her face was heavy, Lu Xiaofeng understood the reason why mother was so angry this time.

Seven children are seriously ill?Lu Xiaofeng's face was pale, and he knelt down in front of Mrs. Lu's feet, tugged at Mrs. Lu's skirt and said eagerly: "Mother, let me go and see Qitong, I'll go and see him!"

Mrs. Lu was a little satisfied when she saw her fearless son showing such a frightened expression for the first time, but she still said calmly, "You are not allowed to go anywhere!"

Mrs. Lu turned around and picked up the family method on the altar table, it was a short whip made of buffalo leather, the leather was soaked in water, it was strong and strong, Lu Xiaofeng shuddered unconsciously.

Two years ago, because he had a fight with Jiang Yiye's son Jiang Tongwu and accidentally injured Jiang Tongwu, his father enforced the family law once. The tragedy at that time is still vivid in his memory.

Mrs. Lu: "Do you accept the punishment?"

Lu Xiaofeng spat out a few times, straightened his body on his knees, and replied with a lot of energy: "Yes!"

Mrs. Lu patted the short whip on her palm, and said: "How many whips do you say?"

Lu Xiaofeng pursed his lips, and said with a generous expression for a while: "Ten lashes!"

Madam Lu raised her eyebrows in surprise.

Lu Xiaofeng took off his coat, only wearing traditional Chinese medicine, kneeling upright, Mrs. Lu did not soften her heart, Lu Xiaofeng said ten lashes would be ten lashes, each lash fell firmly on Lu Xiaofeng's back, each lash, Lu Xiaofeng trembled in pain, and Lu Xiaoxi, who was eavesdropping outside the door, also trembled. In the end, beads of sweat and tears rolled down together, but Lu Xiaofeng remained silent.

Although Mrs. Lu punished Lu Xiaofeng, seeing her son being so stubborn, she still felt a little distressed, and was quite satisfied in her heart. She threw a futon for Lu Xiaofeng to kneel on, and asked him to reflect on it in the ancestral hall.

Hua Manlou was still in a coma, her little face was flushed red, Madam Lu felt extremely guilty, she dragged Madam Hua out of the inner room and started talking, Lu Xiaoxi stood by the bed and did not follow her out, watching the two mothers leave When she reached the other side of the screen, she hurriedly kicked her two short legs onto the bed.

In the outer room, Mrs. Lu said with an apologetic face: "Sister, it's Feng'er who is too naughty and made Qitong suffer. I don't know when this child will wake up. What should I do?"

Mrs. Hua patted Mrs. Lu's hand comfortingly and said: "The doctor said, Xiaoqi just contracted the wind and cold, and was overly frightened, so there is nothing serious about it. Don't worry about it too much. Huatan also told me, he When going to carry the two children down the tree, Feng Er tightly protected Xiao Qi in her arms, and covered Xiao Qi tightly with the cloak. After all, she is a child, so it is really rare to be able to do this, so don’t punish her. He's scared, he's scared himself."

Mrs. Lu snorted softly and said, "How can you not punish him? If you don't punish him, you will break the sky in the future. He has no respect for his elders, and he is so daring!"

Mrs. Hua had no choice but to take Mrs. Lu's hand to persuade her carefully.

In the inner room, Lu Xiaoxi knelt on the bed, took Hua Manlou's hand, put her head next to Hua Manlou's ear, and whispered: "Seventh brother, wake up quickly, if you don't wake up, brother will be killed by your mother." I beat my brother to death! Last time my father beat my brother with a whip, and my brother cried for several days. This time, my mother beat my brother with ten whips, but my brother didn’t move at all. My brother must have been beaten unconscious by my mother. You still locked my brother in the ancestral hall, my brother is so pitiful."

While Lu Xiaoxi was talking, her eyes were red, tears were streaming down her face, and she was afraid of being discovered by her mother, so she quickly wiped her face with the Huamanlou quilt, and slid off the bed again.

After returning to Lu's residence, Lu Xiaoxi volunteered to deliver lunch to Lu Xiaofeng, Madam Lu did not stop her.As soon as he entered the ancestral hall, Lu Xiaoxi hugged Lu Xiaofeng and began to cry. The family members who came to deliver the meal couldn't help but retreated outside the door to wait for the siblings.

Lu Xiaoxi sobbed: "Brother...Brother, I, I thought, you...you were, you were beaten out by mother."

Lu Xiaofeng's back hurts a lot. Although he took the medicine, Lu Xiaoxi pulled his clothes and pressed him again. He gasped in pain, but he still forced a smile and said, "I'm fine, Xi'er won't cry anymore. , have you gone to see Qitong?"

Lu Xiaoxi nodded twitching.

Lu Xiaofeng: "How is Qi Tong?"

Lu Xiaoxi: "Seventh brother is still running a fever, and he hasn't woken up yet. Mother said to send a Ganoderma lucidum over there in the afternoon."

Lu Xiaofeng knelt on the futon, pinched his chin, rolled his eyes, and whispered a few words to Lu Xiaoxi, Lu Xiaoxi stared at Lu Xiaofeng for a moment, then nodded firmly.

It was night, Lu Xiaofeng put the little paper figure that Lu Xiaoxi secretly gave him in front of the oil lamp, adjusted the position, the shadow of the paper figure was just magnified on the window, it looked like Lu Xiaofeng was still kneeling properly.

The key to the back door of the Lu Mansion has always been kept by the concierge. After Lu Xiaoxi came back from the Huafu in the afternoon, he followed the concierge around. After seeing the key to the back door, he secretly tied a knot with a black silk thread. Enter the bedroom of the concierge, secretly took the key to the back door and left the house.

Lu Xiaofeng placed three Diamond Monkeys in a row outside the courtyard wall closest to Huamanlou's room, and then hurried to the side door of Huamansion.The side door was quietly opened a crack, Hua Ping stuck out his nose with snot hanging from the cold, Lu Xiaofeng smiled and thanked Hua Ping.Hua Ping also secretly let Lu Xiaofeng into the mansion without telling the adults, he was very guilty, he pulled Lu Xiaofeng on his waist, and ran all the way to Huamanlou's room.

Mrs. Hua didn't have a good rest for two consecutive nights, so Huaping volunteered to watch the night for the young master. At this time, there was only Huamanlou in the room, and Huaping was guarding the outside.

In the candlelight, Huamanlou's face was flushed and her breathing was a little short. Lu Xiaofeng stood beside the bed feeling extremely guilty, and touched Huamanlou's head, feeling hot.Lu Xiaofeng thought that he had been frozen all the way and his body was very cold, so he could help Qitong cool down, so he simply took off his shoes and shirt, got into the bed, and slept with Huamanlou in his arms.

In the middle of the night, a family member was about to come to replace Hua Ping, Hua Ping had no choice but to wake Lu Xiaofeng up, but unexpectedly woke up Hua ManLou together.

Huamanlou asked for water in a daze, the two were overjoyed, and quickly gave Huamanlou water.Hua Ping went to call the government doctor, but Lu Xiaofeng didn't dare to stay too long, took Hua Manlou's hand and promised to come back tomorrow night, then hurriedly left Hua Mansion.

For several days in a row, in the middle of the night, Lu Xiaofeng ran back and forth between Lu Hua's two residences.

The injury on Lu Xiaofeng's back still hasn't healed, and every time he climbed up and down the bed, he grinned in pain, Hua Manlou felt guilty, and tearfully said: "I'm sorry, little Fenghuang, for causing you to be beaten by your aunt."

Lu Xiaofeng saw that Huamanlou looked like he was about to cry, and panicked, he quickly hugged Huamanlou and said, "It's okay, Qitong, as long as Qitong gets well soon, I won't be in pain anymore."

Lu Xiaofeng looked down at Huamanlou's red eyes like a little rabbit, grinned unconsciously, patted Huamanlou's head and said, "It's a pity that Qitong got cold and sick, we didn't catch that rabbit"

Hua Manlou shook Lu Xiaofeng's arm and said, "When I'm well, shall we go?"

Lu Xiaofeng was a little confused when he heard the words, Hua Manlou withdrew his hand in disappointment, and said in a nasal voice, "Don't take me with you, if I get sick again, Little Phoenix will be beaten again."

Lu Xiaofeng hurriedly smiled and took Hua Manlou's arm and said, "Definitely bring Qitong, we will go when the weather is warmer!"

Only then did Hua Manlou smile again, but the smile didn't last for a while, when Lu Xiaofeng said, "I won't be coming tomorrow night."

Lu Xiaofeng: "Mother seems to be suspicious of me. I entered the ancestral hall just after Yinshi today. I just packed up and knelt down. I almost revealed my secrets. Anyway, it will be Chinese New Year in a few days. Mother can't celebrate the new year." Let me kneel in the ancestral hall..."

Lu Xiaofeng didn't expect his words to come true. On New Year's Eve, he was still imprisoned in the ancestral hall. Mrs. Lu sent someone to give him new clothes and a small round hat with a wolf fur lining, but she didn't intend to lift the ban at all.

Hua Manlou was ready to get out of bed, Mrs. Hua wrapped him tightly into a ball, and wore a small round cap lined with wolf fur on his head, looking like a fat squirrel.

Hua Wu heard that his seventh younger brother was sick, so he rushed into Huamanlou's room in a hurry as soon as he arrived at Huazhai. He felt that when he first entered, his seventh younger brother looked over excitedly, but he could see clearly his On the back of his face, the serious and faint smile of the past resumed.

Hua Manlou spends very little time with the six elder brothers, and because of his young age, he is not familiar with them.In the past years, Hua Wu came back with all kinds of gadgets to play with Hua Manlou. Although Hua Manlou was not very relaxed at first, she would always follow behind her, and would be amused by Hua Wu after a while. But today Hua Wu felt that his younger brother was a little absent-minded, always looking at the door of the room.

Hua Wu: "Qi Tong, who are you waiting for?"

Hua Manlou just lowered his head and shook his head, then took a Kong Ming Lock and held it up to Hua Wu, smiling and began to unlock it.

Huamanlou was concentrating on unlocking the Kong Ming lock. Huawu didn't want to disturb his younger brother anymore, so he curled his lips helplessly, and went to the kitchen to find a plate of pastries and brought them back to feed Huamanlou. Unexpectedly, he went back to the room, There was only one Kongming lock lying quietly on the soft couch, but Huamanlou was gone.

Mrs. Lu was sitting in the room and heard the report from the servants. She thought she had heard it wrong, and confirmed again and again that it was the young man who came to the Lu residence alone. She didn't care about the demeanor that the general's wife should have, so she lifted the corner of her skirt and ran out , as soon as he went out, he saw Hua Manlou was being pulled by the concierge and walking through the flower corridor, his little face was flushed from the cold.

When Huamanlou saw Mrs. Lu, she stopped, and put her two small hands together in front of her chest to salute, but she was wearing too much clothes, and she couldn't catch her hands after several attempts.

Mrs. Lu ran all the way there, Huamanlou was still fighting with her, her little hands were exposed in the air, a little purple from the cold, Mrs. Lu picked up Huamanlou and walked to the Nuan Pavilion, muttering: "My little girl Ancestor, you haven't recovered from your illness yet, why did you come here alone?"

Hua Manlou's movements are very inflexible now. She squirmed in Mrs. Lu's arms for a long time before she raised her head, and said Nuo Nuo: "Auntie, please don't punish Xiao Fenghuang. Look at me, I'm fine. It's fine for me to come here by myself."

Mrs. Lu couldn't laugh or cry, so she had to agree with him.

Lu Xiaofeng knelt on the futon with a sad face, the sound of children setting off firecrackers in the street had already been heard, his heart was scratching like a cat, he could only helplessly look at the ancestral tablet and sigh.

Suddenly, he heard the sound of the door opening behind him.

The light in the ancestral hall was a bit dim, Lu Xiaofeng turned around and saw a round figure running in against the light.

Could it be the fat squirrel fairy sent by heaven to save him?

Lu Xiaofeng squinted his eyes to see the person's face clearly, when he heard Hua Manlou's joyful voice:

"I'm here to save you, little Phoenix!"