The two people in the room glanced at each other in surprise. They quickly put out the fire and undid the hairpin.
There was simply not enough time to change clothes, so Cui Jintang got into the bed directly.
Zhu Er covered the brazier with a lid and then opened the window to quickly disperse the smell.
After a while of pretending to cover up the truth, Zhu Er finally walked to the door and opened it a crack.
When he saw Pei Zhaolin, his eyebrows furrowed slightly. "Where's Miss Cui?"
At this moment, Zhu Er naturally didn't have a good look on his face when seeing Pei Zhaolin.
He blocked Pei Zhaolin's view with his body, blocking it tightly. "Our lady has already gone to bed. Lord Pei, please go back!"
Pei Zhaolin glanced at the sky and obviously didn't believe it. "It's not even lunchtime yet, and Miss Cui has already gone to bed?"
Zhu Er got impatient and deliberately picked harsh words to taunt. "What capacity does Lord Pei come here in today to show concern for our lady?"
"In the capital, Lord Pei already revealed in front of the noble consort that he would marry Miss Luo. Why are you still pestering our lady?"
"From the moment our lady left the Pei Mansion, Lord Pei should have understood!"
"Lord Pei, please be kind and stop ruining our lady's reputation!"
After saying that, Zhu Er was about to close the door.
Just as the door was about to close, Pei Zhaolin suddenly reached out and grabbed the door frame.
His knuckles were pale, and the joints protruded prominently due to the force.
"Elder Cui said that her condition is very strange. I won't go in. Just let Doctor Wu examine her."
Zhu Er pushed against the door forcefully, so much so that the wound on his arm reopened, and blood beads slid down his arm.
He was afraid that Pei Zhaolin would notice something abnormal, so he loosened his strength in pushing against the door a bit.
Sure enough, Doctor Wu twitched his nose and suddenly asked, "Why is there a smell of blood?"
Just as Zhu Er was about to give a perfunctory answer, he saw Pei Zhaolin stunned for a moment. Then Pei Zhaolin leaned to the side and used his shoulder to push open the door that Zhu Er had been blocking desperately, and directly barged in.
Zhu Er stood there in pain, gasping for air, and then rolled his eyes several times.
After pushing open the door, he saw the pearl curtain hanging in the room.
After hearing the noise outside, Cui Jintang, who was just about to get up, immediately lay down again and closed her eyes pretending to be asleep.
The closer Pei Zhaolin got, the lighter his steps became.
Behind a screen, he saw Cui Jintang lying on the bed.
She was covered with a thin quilt, her eyebrows tightly knitted, as if she was haunted by a nightmare.
Pei Zhaolin's gaze was simply too hard to ignore.
Cui Jintang trembled suddenly and then let out a soft, painful groan.
Then she took the opportunity to turn over and curl up, vaguely shouting, "No..."
Hearing that painful groan and seeing her back curled up without any sense of security, Pei Zhaolin suddenly felt his heart in a complete mess.
His brain also throbbed.
He quickly stepped forward and stood outside the screen, softly calling out, "Miss Cui?"
Cui Jintang trembled slightly all over.
She seemed to be awakened by Pei Zhaolin's call. She suddenly opened her eyes, turned around, and after seeing who was outside the screen, her pupils shrank slightly.
Cui Jintang hoarsely shouted, "Get out!"
Pei Zhaolin quickly took more than a dozen steps back.
Zhu Er endured the pain and tried his best to act as if nothing was wrong.
"Our lady just fell asleep with great difficulty. Why did Lord Pei have to shout like that?"
"Do you know that our lady hasn't had a good night's sleep for several days?!"
"Like I said before, Lord Pei, please spare our lady!"
Zhu Er deliberately said these words to Pei Zhaolin.
Pei Zhaolin looked at the tiredness between Cui Jintang's eyes and eyebrows and suddenly stood there stunned.
Guilt was like a bone-attached taint. The moment he saw clearly, it wrapped him up tightly without a single gap.
"I... I'm sorry."
Pei Zhaolin lowered his head in a hurry, his tone eager and sincere.
Her tired face constantly flashed in his mind. The guilt in his heart was like thousands of steel needles, stabbing his heart again and again.
It almost made him unable to breathe.
"I appreciate Lord Pei's kindness, but there's no need for the pulse diagnosis."
Cui Jintang sat there tiredly, her tone lazy.
Zhu Er was not polite at all and opened the door.
Just as Pei Zhaolin and the other person were about to go out, he slammed the door shut.
To show his unwelcome attitude towards Pei Zhaolin.
Pei Zhaolin's head ached as if it was about to explode.
Doctor Wu beside him noticed his abnormality and quickly took out a roll of silver needles from his medicine box and stabbed them into Pei Zhaolin's acupoints on his forehead!
After a long while, Pei Zhaolin's ugly expression finally eased.
Doctor Wu rolled up the silver needles again and put them back into the medicine box. "Has the lord taken the medicine on time recently?"
Seeing that he didn't answer, Doctor Wu understood that Pei Zhaolin probably hadn't taken the medicine.
"Why is everyone so reluctant to take the medicine!"
Doctor Wu was most afraid of such patients who didn't take their medicine.
"I took a few glances at Miss Cui's complexion from afar just now. It was shockingly pale."
"There were also bloodstains on her fingers and neck!"
Pei Zhaolin's brain buzzed. All he could think about was one sentence: "She's injured?!"
Doctor Wu stroked his beard and sighed. "If Miss Cui had taken the medicine properly and not worried all day long, she should have recovered by now according to the time."
"Now it seems that she has worried too much, which has caused her emotions to fluctuate too much, so she would involuntarily hurt herself."
Doctor Wu was really puzzled. "What did the lord do to Miss Cui? Such a young girl has been hurt like this!"
Pei Zhaolin suddenly felt anxious and angry. He was angry at himself for being completely blank in his mind and unable to remember anything.
Suddenly, he felt a sweet, fishy taste surging up his throat, which he forcefully swallowed down.
He turned around and was about to go look for Cui Jintang.
Doctor Wu was so scared that he quickly stopped him. "That young man was right just now! Miss Cui's problem lies with you, my lord. It's better for you to appear in front of Miss Cui less for now!"
Pei Zhaolin stood there, his five fingers in his sleeve clenched tightly.
Even though he was extremely unwilling, he still agreed.
Doctor Wu looked at him. There was a surging, terrifying rage and restlessness in his eyes.
He suppressed it forcefully and didn't explode, just like the extremely suppressed calm before a storm.
"Did you find the calendula that can help me regain my memory during your two extra days in another city?"
Doctor Wu shook his head. "What I found wasn't calendula, but Zhurong flower, which looks similar to calendula."
Pei Zhaolin's aura became even lower.
He strode out.
Doctor Wu sighed and resignedly quickened his pace to follow.
Zhu Er, who was eavesdropping by the door crack, suddenly had an epiphany.
So during the two days when Pei Zhaolin was away, he went to another city to look for the calendula to regain his memory?
That made him even angrier. He couldn't even find a flower!
He angrily cursed a few times. Suddenly, Cui Jintang's voice came from behind him. "What did you hear?"
Zhu Er was startled and subconsciously told a lie. "I was too far away. I didn't hear anything!"
Cui Jintang didn't take it to heart and pointed at his wound. "Treat it quickly."
Zhu Er quickly agreed.
—
In the dead of night.
Just as Cui Jintang closed her eyes, she suddenly heard a strange noise beside her ear.
"Thud."