“This is the medicinal wine I usually use, and the effect is not bad. Miss Liu, apply it after soaking your feet. You will feel much better.”
Liu Yusheng was stunned for a moment. “Thank you.”
She didn’t expect Fu Yuzheng to be so thoughtful. Although she didn’t need it, she still took the medicinal liquor.
Before soaking her feet, she had already driven Feng Qingbai out. He knew that she had plenty of medicines used as soothing medicines on her. That was why he didn’t order the servants to bring up the medicinal wine.
Apparently, Fu Yuzheng didn’t know that she was a famous doctor.
After opening the medicine bottle and smelling it, Liu Yusheng frowned “Does Miss Fu get injured on a regular basis?”
Fu Yuzheng froze, not knowing why the woman asked this.
“This is a medicinal wine for muscle and tendon strain. If you often use it on a regular basis, isn’t it because you are often injured?”
After understanding the woman’s meaning, Fu Yuzheng lowered her eyes. “I usually follow the martial arts master of the courtyard to train self-defense methods. Bumps and bruises are inevitable.”
“Sorry, I didn’t mean to probe you. I thought you were bullied in the house, so I asked.” Liu Yusheng explained, so as not to cause misunderstanding.
Fu Yuzheng’s eyelashes trembled imperceptibly. She raised her head, gave the woman a deep look, and changed the subject, “How do you know that this is a medicinal wine for muscle and tendon strain?”
She sought the help of an old traditional doctor in the capital and brewed this wine. It wasn’t sold in the market.
Liu Yusheng smiled, inclined her head towards the woman and replied, “Because I am a doctor. I also have a nickname in our village. They call me the Little Divine Doctor.”
“…”
Fu Yuzheng suddenly didn’t know how to respond.
She felt rather at a loss about what to do.
She could calmly face cold words, could spar wittily with people with ease. Even if her nose was pointed at with hurled insults and curses, she’d take them without blinking an eye.
She was the best at disguise, and the best at dealing with disguise.
However, in the face of such a cordial and relaxed way of chatting, where she could clearly feel sincerity and goodwill, she didn’t know how to answer without ruining the atmosphere.
No one had ever treated her like this before.
It took a long time before she could mumble, subconsciously squeezing out a sentence, “I’ve shown you my incompetence.”
After answering, she laughed at herself.
See, this was the only way she talked to people.
Stiff, polite, and hypocritical.
The girl gave her a look and pointed to the small medical kit by the bed. “Please help me bring that over here for a moment.”
She handed it to the girl and watched her rummage inside, then handed her a jade white porcelain bottle. “In the future, if you feel uncomfortable after training, mix the powder here, just the size of your fingernail, with water and drink it. A small cup of water will do, and you’ll feel much better afterward.”
Fu Yuzheng woodenly took the medicine bottle and was once again thrown at sea.
The girl raised the medicinal wine she gave her and smiled brightly. “I’ll take this one, as a courtesy. You should take it too.”
Fu Yuzheng sat in front of the window for a long time after leaving the Shengxiao Courtyard and returning to her sleeping quarters.
There was no lamp, only the moonlight streaming in from the window. There were two things vaguely visible on the wooden table in front of the window.
A handkerchief and a medicine bottle.
After a long time, the woman put these two things away, carefully and meticulously hiding them in the bottom layer of her dressing table.
Shengxiao Courtyard.
After the girl soaked her feet, Feng Qingbai walked in.
He had been waiting outside the house earlier.
He met the girl’s crescent eyes, raised his hand, and rubbed the top of her head. “Why are you so nice to her? I told you not to care too much about her and stay away.”
Fu Yuzheng, like him, was struggling in this circle of people. Her heart has long been impure.
Liu Yusheng inclined her head and stuck her tongue out at the man. “She’s not that scary.”
It was because she understood Fu Yuzheng.
She understood the feeling of being betrayed, calculated and abandoned by her closest relatives. She knew very well the pain and loneliness that were in the vein of falling into hell.
She had suffered before.
So when she met Fu Yuzheng, she hoped to let her feel a ray of goodwill if possible.
The heavens treated her generously and compensated her in this life with everything she failed to gain in her previous life.
Hence, there was nothing wrong with sharing a bit of her warmth to others.
The man frowned lightly, still with some disapproval.
The young girl reached out and hugged his waist with a sprinkle of coquetry. “Don’t worry, I won’t do this to anyone. But let me whisper it to you. I have eyes of fire, and I can see through all sorts of evil spirits.”
Feng Qingbai’s heart immediately softened at her playful and lovely appearance.
He would just go along with her. Anyhow, he would always be there to protect her.
Liu Yusheng knew that the man thought she was joking and did not explain much.
Saying that she had eyes of fire was an exaggeration, but she did witness the fickleness of human nature and the inconstancy of human relationships.
She could differentiate a genuine person from fake demons and monsters.
There were only three people at the dining table because Xue Qinglian was in seclusion.
Liu Zhixia talked about his formal apprenticeship. “Later on, I need to study with Elder Yang to prepare for the examination next spring. Elder Yang recommended that I study in the Imperial Academy of the capital, so I will enroll tomorrow. I want to move to the Imperial Academy dormitory in passing.”
“The royal residence is not far from the Imperial Academy, so there is no need to move out,” Feng Qingbai said.
“If I keep living in the royal residence, I am afraid there will be many rumors, so going to the dormitory will circumvent many troubles.”
“Even if you move out, the rumors will remain. Why do you care about what people say?”
Liu Yusheng also wavered. She recognized her big brother’s concerns, but also agreed with Feng Qingbai’s argument.
Her big brother was worried about people saying that he relied on the royal family to climb up. At the same time, he was also afraid that their involvement with each other would bring trouble to Feng Qingbai.
But since they moved into the royal residence, in the eyes of outsiders, they were knee-deep in contact with Feng Qingbai. Some things couldn’t be avoided.
“Do you have to move out, Big Brother?”
Seeing the reluctance in his sister’s eyes, Liu Zhixia hesitated, “I’ll think about it.”
After bathing, Liu Zhixia slowly strolled to the back garden. He chose a stone table and sat down, looking up at the moon.
The moon was cool as water, and the temperature of the autumn night was already a bit refreshing.
But it couldn’t get rid of the restlessness in his heart.
He was still in a festive mood when he strolled here in the afternoon, but after a few hours of work, troubles floated up.
Liu Zhixia smiled bitterly.
“Do I need to make a pot of tea for you, Young Master?”
Liu Zhixia turned around and saw the vague figure of the green dressed woman, standing not far behind him.
The hazy moonlight fell on her face, making her already slender appearance even more delicate.
Nevertheless, this was merely her appearance. The woman’s eyes were entirely different from her delicateness.
They were jet black and quiet. Her eyes never flickered, and a tenacity that ordinary people couldn’t reach lurked in those eyes.
“How come Miss Fu is here?”
The back garden was not very close to the courtyard where the servants live, right?
“I saw you and followed you here,” the woman replied bluntly.
“Were you afraid that I’m scared of the dark?” Liu Zhixia laughed. “I grew up in the countryside and I am not used to being served, so Miss needn’t exert yourself.”
“You gave me a handkerchief. In return, I show concern about you. I don’t mean anything else,” she explained.
She was afraid he’d misunderstood.
She did not mean anything else.
When others treated her badly, she could hit back decisively.
But when people treated her nicely, she didn’t know how to respond.
Seeing that he looked in a bad mood, she unconsciously followed.
Peek-Aboo 
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