A life of ups and downs is pure joy

Sitting alone in the secluded bamboo forest, playing the zither and whistling, the moon shines down on me, unknown to anyone in the deep forest. There's no moon, no zither music, only Xiao Yu practicing his sword skills and his infatuated fans. This is already the third time Lin Qinghuan has come to Xiao Yu for tea and a chat in the past two weeks.

After he finished performing a set of incomprehensible martial arts moves, his follower Liu Ye stepped forward, took the sword and put it back into the scabbard, and handed him a handkerchief. He wiped the sweat from his forehead, walked into the pavilion and took a sip of the tea handed to him by Lin Qinghuan.

"Are there words on my face? Fifth sister is looking at me like that." Xiao Yu asked curiously when he saw Lin Qinghuan staring at him.

"Brother Xiao, your medical skills are so good, isn't Doctor Bu even more of a god?" Lin Qinghuan looked at his face and suddenly felt as if he had some impression of him in the original owner's fragmentary memories, similar to him but not like him.

"Master's medical skills are the best in the world. He can be called a god." He gestured to Lin Qinghuan to stretch out her wrist and took her pulse. He felt that this was a common problem among medical students. Lin Mo listened for a few times when he had nothing to do.

"The person speaks in a steady and powerful voice, with clear pronunciation. He seems to be in good spirits, and his pulse is also good. It seems that he has been taking medicine well." Xiao Yu said after taking the pulse.

"Brother Xiao, can you prescribe me some delicious medicine? It's too bitter. Drinking it every day feels like torture." Lin Qinghuan has become so shameless that he even skips the word "home".

"Good medicine tastes bitter. Aren't there the most preserved fruits in your house?" Xiao Yu looked so good when he smiled. Lin Qinghuan actually found that she particularly liked to see him smile. She originally thought that he was a cold and aloof medical saint, but she never thought that after a few contacts, he was as friendly as a brother next door. Moreover, Lin Qinghuan came to bother her several times, and Xiao Yu was very easy-going, accompanying her to drink tea, eat fruits and chat.

"Well, just bear with it." Lin Qinghuan took a sip of tea and kept tapping the teacup with his fingertips, thinking about how to start talking about Xue Feng.

"Fifth sister, speak up. You've been holding things in your heart for a long time, and the discomfort will make your heart palpitations worse." Xiao Yu saw that Lin Qinghuan looked like she was worried about something.

"I do have a favor to ask of you." Seeing that he had revealed his thoughts to her, Lin Qinghuan said directly, "Brother Xiao, please save my Aunt Xue. Sister Mo said she is dying." Before she finished speaking, Lin Qinghuan's voice began to choke.

Seeing this, Xiao Yu's face changed slightly and he frowned. Not knowing whether it was Lin Qinghuan's surprise, he could see a trace of panic in Xiao Yu's eyes. Chu Xia stepped forward and knelt on the ground, crying, "Xiao Yisheng, please save Concubine Xue. Our daughter has been unable to eat or sleep since she learned about Concubine Xue's illness. It was because of this that she suddenly had heart palpitations and fainted."

Xiao Yu quickly stood up and helped Chu Xia up. "Miss Chu Xia, please stand up," he then looked at Lin Qinghuan and asked, "What symptoms does Aunt Xue you mentioned have?"

"Sister Mo said she's suffering from blood deficiency and qi deficiency, and the pain is unbearable every day. Now only Brother Xiao and Doctor Bu can save her. I went to her yard yesterday, and she was lying there, looking so weak that she couldn't even stand up. Father and Empress He are far away in Yinan, and my eldest brother has also gone to Kyoto. Grandmother is not in good health, and Aunt Xue doesn't let me bother her. Now she relies on Sister Mo's daily medicine to keep her going."

"I'll go with you to take a look." Liu Ye trotted over to pack his medicine box.

In the Chenxiang Garden, Xue Feng was lying on the couch with his eyes closed, his face pale and bloodless. Lin Qingru was sitting in the yard with Zhichuan, playing with clay figures.

Xiao Yu quietly took Xue Feng's pulse. Lin Qinghuan and Lin Mo beside him breathed very softly, for fear of disturbing Xiao Yu's auscultation.

"Brother Xiao, how is it?" Xiao Yu put away his equipment and sat back at the table. Lin Qinghuan quickly sat next to him and asked. Lin Mo looked at them both in surprise, then lowered his head to straighten Xue Feng's sleeves, then walked out and sat next to Lin Qinghuan.

"Aunt Xue had a miscarriage caused by drugs in her early years. Although she was carefully nursed back to health later, it was really cruel for her to give birth again in such a state of health," said Xiao Yu.

"What did you say? Medication causes miscarriage?" Lin Qinghuan looked at him in surprise and asked in confusion.

"If I hadn't taken the medicine for miscarriage, my body wouldn't be like this now." Xiao Yu said as he wrote the prescription.

"But it was obvious that she had a miscarriage because she was tired from taking care of me." Lin Qinghuan choked.

When Xiao Yu heard Lin Qinghuan's crying voice, he looked up at her and said softly, "With the fatigue and the abortion medicine, you shouldn't have another child in this state."

"Is there any way to treat it now?" Lin Qinghuan asked anxiously. Lin Mo gently pulled her hand under the table.

"Fifth sister, let Aunt Xue take this prescription first, and she won't suffer so much every day." Lin Mo picked up the prescription and looked at it carefully, then raised his head and said, "Brother Xiao, what is this prescription?"

"Everyone has their own destiny. If she can suffer less pain every day from now on, this is the only thing I can do now." Xiao Yu said.

"What do you mean?" Lin Qinghuan looked at the two people in front of him uneasily.

"Huan'er, this may be Aunt Xue's fate." Lin Mo looked at Xue Feng lying on the sickbed with heartache and said with a heavy heart.

"No, Sister Mo, you said they can be cured." Lin Qinghuan cried and held Lin Mo's hand, speaking in a trembling voice.

"Brother Xiao, if you can cure a body as bad as mine, how can Aunt Xue be harder to treat than me? You are the medical saint!" Lin Qinghuan looked at Xiao Yu and said aggrievedly.

"Huan'er~" Xue Feng's weak voice came from the curtain, sounding extremely soft.

"Aunt Xue." Lin Qinghuan stood up and ran in quickly. Lin Mo was afraid that she would not be able to hold on again, so he quickly got up and followed her in.

"Huan'er, don't make things difficult for them. Aunt Xue knows her own body condition." Xue Feng gently patted Lin Qinghuan's hand. His pale face showed loss of vitality, and coupled with the loss of appetite, his face had become extremely thin.

Lin Qinghuan looked at Xue Feng's appearance, feeling extremely desperate. She thought Xiao Yu could save Xue Feng, and she couldn't help crying any longer and lay on her. Seeing her like this, Lin Mo also shed tears beside her. In the past few years since coming here, the person who loved Lin Qinghuan the most in the entire Lin family was Xue Feng. She would have people send her her favorite snacks every day, make clothes for her by hand every month, and let her go to the yard for dinner every few days, just to see her a few more times. It would be too cruel to let Lin Qinghuan watch her die.

Xue Feng took the medicine prescribed by Xiao Yu every day, and she no longer had the unbearable abdominal pain like before. She had a little appetite and could occasionally go out for a walk or sit in the yard to watch the two children playing. Lin Qinghuan still visited her every day, chatted with her, and listened to her talk about Zhang Yulan. Sometimes Lin Ancai would come over to play with Zhichuan, or show Xue Feng his stick. Xue Feng always looked at the brother and sister with a loving face.

Today was the day when Xiao Yu came to see the doctor. Lin Qinghuan didn't know why she was angry with him. Although she knew she was unreasonable, she still didn't want to see him or talk to him. She always felt that he could save Xue Feng.

"You can heal me, why can't you heal Aunt Xue?" Lin Qinghuan refused to stretch out his arm for him to feel his pulse. Chuxia was anxious and embarrassed and wanted to come forward to help.

Seeing Lin Qinghuan being so unreasonable, Xiao Yu was not angry. He signaled Chu Xia to go out first, leaving only the two of them in the room.

"I have a few words I want to talk to my fifth sister in detail. I wonder if Miss Hongqi could go and have a cup of tea first?" Xiao Yu said to the outside of the door, and then he heard the sound of Hongqi returning to the room.

Lin Qinghuan pulled open the curtain and looked at him angrily. For some reason, ever since she had some memories of Lin Qinghuan, a strange feeling made her become more and more presumptuous in front of Xiao Yu.

"Fifth sister, why do you think I can save Aunt Xue?" Xiao Yu asked in a soft voice when he saw Lin Qinghuan's angry look.

"Because you are the Medical Saint, Sister Mo said that you are more talented than the Medical Immortal Bu. She said that there is no disease that you cannot cure." Lin Qinghuan looked at him aggrievedly, feeling that she would not be able to hold back in the next second.

"I am also an ordinary person, not a god from heaven. I can cure you because I have medicine to cure you. The same is true for other sick people. But Aunt Xue's life is about to end. No matter what precious and rare herbs I use, I can't save her. The only thing I can do is to let her live the rest of her life without pain." Xiao Yu said patiently.

"Brother Xiao, I'm sorry, Huan'er was unreasonable." Hearing him say this, Lin Qinghuan suddenly felt that she was a bit too willful. She then lowered her head and apologized softly, then obediently stretched out her wrist to him.

"Why are you so close to Aunt Xue?" Xiao Yu did not rush to take her pulse, but instead asked about the relationship between Lin Qinghuan and Xue Feng.

"Huan'er has been without a biological mother since she was a child. It was Aunt Xue who brought me up, raised me and loved me, just like my biological mother. So I really don't want her to be like this..." Lin Qinghuan finally couldn't help crying. Lin Qinghuan loved crying too much. When she was excited or helpless, she would be speechless, her nose would feel sore, and tears would come. Fortunately, she was just a little girl who was almost thirteen years old now, so it was understandable for her to cry.

Xiao Yu handed Lin Qinghuan his handkerchief. She grabbed it and wiped her face roughly, then held it tightly in her hand, forgetting for a moment who the owner of the handkerchief was. Seeing that Lin Qinghuan had stopped crying, Xiao Yu raised his hand to feel her pulse and gave her an acupuncture. Whether it was for psychological reasons or something else, Lin Qinghuan always felt that the acupuncture today was not as painful as before.

"Brother Xiao, can my disease really be cured?" For some reason, Lin Qinghuan suddenly thought of this question. Thinking about the three years he has been here, he has been drinking medicine, getting injections, and fainting and dying in the same old way.

"Yes, as long as you take the medicine obediently, I will be able to cure you." Xiao Yu looked at her seriously and said.

"Why do you want to heal me? I remember an old man treating me before."

Xiao Yu was silent for a while, "Take your medicine well, I'll come back in a few days."

"Why are you the one who heals me?" Lin Qinghuan's eyelids were getting heavier and heavier. She didn't know whether she asked him the last question in her dream or before falling asleep.

"Huan'er, of course I have to save you." Xiao Yu murmured as he looked at the sleeping Lin Qinghuan.

In the courtyard behind the alley of Lushen Hall, a red-glazed wooden box with peony pattern was placed on the table in front of Xiao Yu. In his hand was a jade bottle, which contained pills made from dragon fruit flowers that he had searched all over Zhou Kingdom for over the years. However, an important ingredient was missing. Even if Lin Qinghuan took it, it would not cure the disease and could only prolong her life for a few years. But in front of him was the scene of their first meeting.

"Who is here?" Xiao Yu, dressed in white, was strolling in the Lin Mansion, but saw a thin but very beautiful girl sitting under the albizzia tree in the quiet backyard.

"I am Qinghuan, Lin Qinghuan." The little girl held the julibrissin flowers in her hand and looked up at Xiao Yu. The girl under the tree had smiling dimples on her face.

"Why are you here alone? These flowers are withered. What are you picking them for?" Xiao Yu walked forward and picked up a piece of Albizia julibrissin and asked curiously.

"I didn't want them to follow me all the time, and my elder sister wouldn't let me out, so I sneaked out from the hole at the back of the yard. Big brother, look how beautiful they are. It's the first time I've seen them." Lin Qinghuan spread out her small palms, and her fair and thin wrists looked even more slender and white like jade against the backdrop of the red and pink albizzia flowers.

"Do you know what this is?" Xiao Yu, who was also sitting under the tree with her, asked gently.

"I know it's called Velvet Huanhua, because it's a flower that Huan'er picked up. These fluffy flowers are so beautiful." Lin Qinghuan smiled shyly, her beautiful eyes curved into a crescent.

"Give me your wrist and I'll take your pulse." Xiao Yu saw Lin Qinghuan's small face, but she looked very sick.

"Brother, can you cure me? They all say I'm dying." Lin Qinghuan stretched out her wrist obediently, looked at Xiao Yu innocently and asked.

"Don't listen to their nonsense. I can cure you." Xiao Yu discovered that Lin Qinghuan had a pre-existing illness and her pulse was weak and disordered. He looked at the little girl's face and said firmly.

"I believe you. Which courtyard do you live in? Are you my brother? I only know that my big brother will come to see me once every few days and buy me delicious candied haws." Lin Qinghuan said happily while looking at Xiao Yu.

"Girl~where are you?" A shout came from the side. Lin Qinghuan stood up in panic and put the albizzia flowers in her hand into Xiao Yu's hand. "Big brother, I have to go back again. Can you come here to see me often in the future? I'm leaving. I can't let them discover my secret." After that, Lin Qinghuan carefully peeled away the flowers behind her, and the rustling sound slowly disappeared.

From then on, every time Xiao Yu and Ning Junze came to find Lin Yu, they would find an excuse to study the flowers and plants in the Lin Mansion, and then go to the albizzia tree under the quiet courtyard to wait for Xiao Lin Qinghuan.

"This coconut and yam cake is so delicious." Lin Qinghuan happily ate the yam cake while listening to Xiao Yu telling the story of how he followed his master to search for precious medicinal materials and treat difficult and complicated diseases everywhere. Little Lin Qinghuan was listening with a smile beside him.

One day, Xiao Yu, who didn't have time to say goodbye to Qinghuan, hurriedly followed Bu Yixian to the Kingdom of Dayan. He was gone for half a year. When he came back, he found that the Lin Mansion in Kyoto was empty. Lin Mudang took his whole family to Luofeng City and became the Marquis of Luofeng.

"Huan'er, are you deliberately angry and pretending not to know me, or have you really forgotten me?" Xiao Yu looked at the bottle in his hand, his eyes full of sadness.

In Lingzhu Garden, Lin Qinghuan was sitting on the bed, and suddenly she remembered that the owner of the handkerchief in her hand was Xiao Yu. She smiled happily unconsciously. It seemed that she could find another excuse to go to him for tea. But when she thought about all the unreasonable things she had done in front of him during the day, she felt that she was not ladylike enough in front of him. Thinking of this, she began to blame herself again, "Hate~" Lin Qinghuan slapped her face in shame and anger.

"Girl, what are you talking about?" Li Xue, who was preparing to cut the candles, heard the noise made by her girl and asked curiously through the curtain.

"It's okay, I'm going to sleep." Lin Qinghuan quickly covered herself with the quilt, ending this messy day.