Chapter 29.1

Cherry Red and Lychee Fragrance (9)

The sunlight painted a golden halo on the side of Lu Zhi Yao’s face, and with his gentle and beautiful appearance, anyone who saw it would feel that a god from heaven has descended to the earth.

However, Li Ruo Shui’s focus was on his lips.

His lips were as red as a cherry, and with a sprinkle of golden light, his lips looked even more delicious.

He spoke with little amplitude. His lips were slightly flattened and the corners of his lips were turned up as if he was smiling.

She tasted it not long ago. His lips were soft and sweet, and she could still feel his trembling.

……

Li Ruo Shui sat up abruptly, trying to shake these terrible thoughts and strange adjectives out of her brain, but as if they had rooted in, the more she thought about them, the clearer the thoughts became.

Thinking about it carefully, his appearance was indeed extremely in line with her aesthetics.

But why does she have to think about it carefully?! She only approached him in order to go back home, so she should not end up getting herself involved!

“Look at what this is.”

Lu Zhi Yao sat on the footrest and took out a packet of herbs from the side. Green leaves and red stems were piled up together quietly, showing a faint golden color in the pillar of light.

Li Ruo Shui took a glance, and then her gaze involuntarily fell on his ears. When she saw the two pierced ears, she couldn’t help but feel curious as to where the pair of feather earrings went. She genuinely thought the feathers looked unique on him.

Li Ruo Shui shook her head again and turned her gaze to his face.

Although Lu Zhi Yao’s eyes were closed, the corners of his lips were slightly raised revealing his expectation.

His appearance coincided with that of him when he was a child, causing Li Ruo Shui to overflow with love and affection, and she was afraid that she would mistake this feeling for love.

Compassion is not the same as love.

So she needs to clear her head.

“This is probably some kind of herbal medicine……” Li Ruo Shui lifted the blanket and put on her shoes. “I, I’ll go find Zheng Yan Qing.”

She just wanted an excuse to get out of here, so she just mentioned a random person.

Looking at Zheng Yan Qing, she could not feel that kind of worldly desire/lust anymore, and she urgently needed him to calm herself down now.

When Li Ruo Shui got up, she was suddenly pulled by the wrist. She did not dare to look at Lu Zhi Yao’s face and could only look out the window.

“What, what’s wrong?”

“Don’t you take a closer look at them?”

Lu Zhi Yao sat sideways on the footrest with his eyes closed and brought the herbs to her eyes again.

“It’s quite pretty.”

Hearing this, Lu Zhi Yao laughed out again. His thin lips parted slightly and the words were blocked in his throat.

“But I have an urgent matter to find Zheng Yan Qing. I will come back to talk to you later.”

Li Ruo Shui brushed his hand away and ran out in a hurry with red ears.

Listening to her clattering footsteps, Lu Zhi Yao was silent for a long time. Gathering the herbs in his hands, his lips opened a few times but he didn’t know what to say.

Then he frowned and stretched out his hand to hammer his heart, feeling stuffy.

“I have to go see the doctor.”

Lu Zhi Yao put the herbs in the cabinet. When he went out, he took a few steps in the direction Li Ruo Shui left. Then he came back to his senses and went straight up to the roof and took a familiar path.

Li Ruo Shui didn’t even need to ask anyone. She ran straight to the Zheng Mansion’s library, where she saw Zheng Yan Qing as expected.

The library in Zheng Mansion was not small. There were more than a dozen bookshelves lined up together. There were many famous books and classics on them. There was a desk in the middle of the library.

“Miss Li, you’re awake.”

Zheng Yan Qing put down the travelog in his hand and looked at her with a slight surprise: “You’ve been sleeping for a day and a night and couldn’t wake up. You have scared us.”

“I’m sorry for making you guys worry.” Li Ruo Shui fanned her slightly reddish cheeks. Then she casually picked up a book and flipped a few pages.

“……Are there any Buddhist scriptures in your study?”

Li Ruo Shui’s look was very sincere, comparable to a monk who devoted himself to seeking scriptures.

Zheng Yan Qing paused for a moment, then turned to the bookshelf to get a book for her.

“I didn’t expect Miss Li to like to read Buddhist scriptures.”

Li Ruo Shui took the book, ready to shake off all the charming scenes in her mind, and replied casually.

“I didn’t expect Mr. Zheng to love travelogs instead of the classics.”

Li Ruo Shui knew about Zheng Yan Qing’s situation. This sentence was meant to be a joke, but Zheng Yan Qing was upset when he heard it.

“Both are books, so what’s the difference between travelogs and classics? They all said that I’ve been gifted and intelligent since I was a child, but no one ever asked me what I really like. They only gave me all the classics.”

The heat on Li Ruo Shui’s face has almost dissipated, and she felt calmer: “Then what do you like?”

“I like going out for parades and adventures. But since I accidentally passed the exams when I was a child, I have never traveled far.

He let out a long sigh. His eyes lost much of their sparkle: “If my condition improves, I will not be able to escape the provincial exams in a few months.”

“Are you stupid?” Li Ruo Shui looked at him incredulously. “I’ve only seen people who wanted to pass the exam, but I’ve never seen someone who wanted to fail it.”

“What do you mean?” Zheng Yan Qing stared at her dumbfounded.

“Just go to the provincial examination. Anyway, the examination place is not in Cangzhou. You can take the opportunity to travel and see the mountains and rivers. When you come back, you can just say that you can’t pass the exam.”

Li Ruo Shui coughed lightly and averted her gaze: “I’m not trying to teach you how to be bad.”

In the original story, Zheng Yan Qing’s weak constitution and occasional difficulty breathing were not true. He was actually given chronic poison.

Lu Fei Yue caught the person who poisoned him. He was a scholar who had been jealous of Zheng Yan Qing for a long time, so he bribed a servant in the Zheng Mansion to poison Zheng Yan Qing.

But things were not so simple. The Zheng family was well-managed and the servants were also loyal. It definitely took a lot of money to bribe for so many years, but now this person appeared very coincidentally as if he was deliberately sent to the door.