Ji Yujin: “What’s wrong?”
Chu Fengqing pursed his lips and finally uttered two words: “Nothing.”
Ji Yujin: “??”
……
Ji Yujin helped Chu Fengqing sort the herbs. Under the sunlight, a bunch of herbs gave off bursts of medicinal fragrance.
“What kind of grass is this?”
Chu Fengqing took a look and said, “Herba Artemisiae Argyi. The leaves of the herb are thin, like bamboo. They are neutral in nature and bitter in taste. They enter the lung meridian and have the effect of dispelling cold and relieving asthma.”
“What about this one?”
Chu Fengqing: “Magnolia, the stamens are inverted cone-shaped, the taste is spicy, cool, and slightly bitter, it has the effects of dispelling wind, opening the orifices, and treating headaches.”
Ji Yujin: “Can you remember every herb in such detail?”
Chu Fengqing: “Most.”
“Oh.” Ji Yujin spoke incoherently, and an herb he had never seen before appeared in his hand. He was about to ask.
Chu Fengqing put down what he was doing and said, “Ji Yujin, do you have something to tell me?”
Ji Yujin put down the herbs and rubbed the dust off his fingers. He composed a sentence in his mind before saying, “I may have to go south. This trip will take a long time.”
Chu Fengqing frowned slightly. “Are you going to provide disaster relief?”
He had also heard about the floods and droughts in the south. A group of refugees had poured into the capital a few days ago. He also heard that a small-scale riot had broken out in the north city because of the refugees. When he went out, there were one or two more guards around him.
Ji Yujin smiled and said, “I still can’t hide it from you. I can’t tell how long this trip will take, but I don’t think it will be fast.”
Chu Fengqing: “When are you going?”
Ji Yujin: “The Emperor issued an order the day before yesterday. Now they are preparing food and supplies. We will set off in the next few days.”
Chu Fengqing: “Alright.”
Ji Yujin: “That’s it?”
Chu Fengqing glanced at him, and there was a clear expression in his eyes: “Otherwise?”
Ji Yujin walked up to him, hugged him from behind, and put his face against his neck. “Why are you like this? No matter how superficial others are, they will still say something nice; as for you, you didn’t even have a personal word to say.”
“Chu Fengqing, I’m sad.”
Facing his lover’s accusation, Chu Fengqing pursed his pale lips and raised his brows slightly. “Everything is fine, and success will be achieved soon.”
Ji Yujin chuckled. He turned Chu Fengqing around and pecked him on the lips. “It’s indeed my taciturn Physician Chu.”
“I was just thinking of putting you in my pocket and carrying you away.”
Chu Fengqing’s pupils shrank slightly, and a thin layer of pink appeared on his face. Although the two had expressed their feelings for a long time, but the overly close contact still made him feel embarrassed.
Ever since the trip south was decided, Ji Yujin became busy. He was rarely seen during the day and would always come back late at night, exhausted. Sometimes Chu Fengqing would wait for him, and sometimes he could not bear it any longer and went to sleep. The two of them hadn’t spoken a few words to each other for several days.
Until two days before leaving the capital, Ji Yujin suddenly had free time. He stayed in the mansion all day, either pestering Chu Fengqing or on his way to pester Chu Fengqing.
But Chu Fengqing filled his day with things, either reading medical books or writing something. Sometimes Ji Yujin was right next to him, but he seldom looked at him.
Ji Yujin frowned and drunk his tea intermittently. His eyes fell on Chu Fengqing, who was studying hard in front of him. He felt a little resentful. He would leave the capital in two days. He had been busy all the time just to put everything aside and stay with Chu Fengqing for these two days. After all, he would not be able to come back for several months this time, which meant that the two of them would not be able to see each other for several months.
When he thought of this, he wanted to come back before he even left the capital gate. No, he should say, before he even left the city.
Unexpectedly, in just these two short days, Chu Fengqing was even busier than him and spent much more time favoring those medical books than favoring him.
Ji Yujin’s eyes moved towards the pile of books again. He narrowed his eyes and began to have bad ideas in his mind: what if he accidentally burned these books?
No, he’s afraid that it’s not the book that’s not fine, it’s him that’s in trouble first.
Ji Yujin poured the bitter tea into his stomach and felt a headache.
But he was just thinking about it and didn’t really want to disturb Chu Fengqing. He was so serious, so he must have something to do. He held his chin with his hand and looked at Chu Fengqing intently, with a hint of pride in his eyes. This one from his family is a physician, and an outstanding physician who had saved so many lives at that.
If he hadn’t been restrained by his body, Chu Fengqing would have definitely gone down in history.
From the daytime to the sunset, Chu Fengqing seemed really full of work. Not to mention getting up and walking around, he didn’t even drink a few sips of water. Only when Ji Yujin couldn’t bear it anymore that he pulled him up and took a walk, and then sat back down after a while.
Finally, when it was dark, Chu Fengqing put down his brush. Before he could even take a breath, he felt the piercing gaze behind him that was about to turn into reality.
Chu Fengqing turned around and looked at the man behind him. “Why are you still here?”
He thought he was out early.
Ji Yujin sneered and said in a cold voice, “You, a busy man, finally remembered me, an idle person?”
Chu Fengqing coughed lightly, knowing that he was in the wrong, he dared not respond. He had indeed ignored Ji Yujin today.
Ji Yujin stood up and approached step by step, “Chu Fengqing, you have ignored me all day.”
Chu Fengqing was forced to retreat step by step. He looked up at Ji Yujin. What should he do? He seemed very angry.
Ji Yujin: “Do you think that in this situation, whatever I do is very normal?”
Chu Fengqing: “Killing people is not normal.”
Ji Yujin was almost angered to laughter by him, but luckily he held it back.
Chu Fengqing felt that he seemed to be even angrier. At the moment when Ji Yujin moved his feet, he said, “Gege, I was wrong.”
Ji Yujin: “……”
Chu Fengqing stared at him intently, “Ge, I won’t dare to do it next time.”
Ji Yujin clenched his fist. Fine, what else can he do?
Ji Yujin gritted his teeth and said, “Next time, don’t read those messy notebooks. I will confiscate all your notebooks tomorrow.”
Chu Fengqing nodded. He was always very sensible at times like this and just followed his lead. However, he thought that he couldn’t hand in all the notebooks; after all, he still had something he hadn’t found. He remembered Ji Yujin’s hint, but that kind of thing was really hard to find, and he couldn’t be impatient.
Before the two of them had exchanged a few words, the emperor summoned Ji Yujin to the palace in the evening, saying that he had something to discuss.
Chu Fengqing looked at his back and pursed his lips. He suddenly stood up and walked to the inner room and took out several ready-made medicines from the medicine box. He didn’t know how to make sachets, but he knew how to make medicine bags.
He opened the cabinet and looked at the sachets hanging inside. These were all sewn for him by his sister, so he kept them well.
Ji Yujin seemed to like a more flamboyant style. He picked and chose a sachet with a “tiger” pattern on it. Just as he was about to take it out, he caught a glimpse of the light green one next to it. The sachet was elegantly made, and there was a small “Qing” character embroidered underneath. He paused, and a trace of confusion appeared in his eyes.
In the end, he still took off the sachet with the word “Qing” on it. Well, he still had selfish motives.
The spices in the sachet had long been cleared out, and now only an empty bag was left. He put the medicine he had just prepared into it, and just as he was about to seal it, he took out two more medicines from the medicine box.
One of them is mugwort, which is believed to ward off evil spirits in folk culture, so it is also called “peace grass.”
Another medicine is Angelica sinensis, which literally means angelica sinensis.
Because of these two medicines, Chu Fengqing poured out the previous herbs and prepared a new medicine sachet to match them. After sealing the mouth, he took another look and saw the eye-catching word “Qing” on the sachet. His hand tightened slightly, and he shook his head. When did he become so thoughtful?
It’s scary, he seems to have changed a lot without noticing.
This time the flood is coming south, it is still cold in the north, but the climate in some places in the south is warm and humid, and mosquitoes have begun to become active. This medicine bag can repel insects and refresh the mind.
Ji Yujin was gone for a whole night and did not come back until dawn the next day. Then he had to set out south the next day. Chu Fengqing felt sorry for him as he had to hurry on his journey, so he sent everyone away, causing Ji Yujin to sleep until mid-afternoon.
When he woke up and saw the sun, he was completely stunned. There was only one day left, and he actually slept for most of it?!
Chu Fengqing’s performance was rather indifferent. Ji Yujin couldn’t help feeling a little frustrated, wondering if Chu Fengqing didn’t care about him that much anymore or something. Didn’t he cherish the things after getting them? Was this a common human problem that Chu Fengqing couldn’t avoid?
Until night, the two of them slept on the same bed. Ji Yujin was not sleepy at all because he had slept all day. He did not fall asleep most of the night, his head was full of thoughts, thinking about this and that. What he thought about the most was that he had to tell Chu Fengqing some things tomorrow. He was really worried about leaving him alone in the capital. Even though he knew that there were secret guards, Li Yu, and others, he still felt that he had to tell him everything in detail.
He was still playing with a strand of Chu Fengqing’s hair in his hand. Just when he closed his eyes and wanted to hold him in his arms to sleep, the person next to him took action first. The cold person suddenly turned around and buried himself in his arms.
Ji Yujin was stunned for a moment, then called out softly, “Qing’er?”
The next moment, he heard the person in his arms say in a muffled voice, “I made a medicine sachet for you. It contains the medicine I prepared. It is good for you. You must carry it with you.”
Ji Yujin held his hand tightly
“Medicine sachet? When was it made?”
Chu Fengqing: “When you entered the palace yesterday.”
“Don’t interrupt me yet. I have prepared a bundle for you. The jade bottle in the bundle contains life-saving medicine, the porcelain bottle contains wound medicine, and there is also a book I wrote these days on plague prevention and treatment, as well as several simple and general prescriptions.”
He pursed his lips. “Throughout history, great disasters have often been followed by great epidemics. I have consulted some ancient books and found many successful methods of our ancestors. I borrowed their methods and made some minor changes. If there is no such method, it is good. We can take precautions. If we encounter it, we will not be caught off guard either.”
Ji Yujin was startled by him. His eyes were surprisingly bright in the darkness, and his heart was burning hot.
“So, you’ve been buried in your table these days because of this?”
Chu Fengqing let out an “En”, “I’m sorry, this is all I can do.” Ji Yujin will be gone for several months, and since he married in, the two have not been apart for so long, and there is a certain gap in their hearts.
Ji Yujin pressed the tip of his tongue against his upper palate, but before he could open his mouth to speak, Chu Fengqing suddenly buried his head deeper.
He said in a muffled voice, “Ji Yujin, I will go with you.”
The person hasn’t left yet, but he is already missing him.
