Chapter 44

  "Zhan Zhao."

  Upon hearing this voice, Zhan Zhao stopped in his tracks and looked at the person who spoke, a smile involuntarily appearing on his face. "Miss Lu."

  Lu Xiaofeng stretched out his hand from inside the house and pulled him in with one grab.

  Zhan Zhao did not resist and was pulled in by her.

  Lu Xiaofeng's face was full of smiles, with a hint of flattery as he looked at him, "Zhan Huwei, help me practice my skills, okay?"

  "Okay."

  She was taken aback by how easily she got a positive response, then burst out laughing like a flower, and in her excitement, she grabbed Xiang Xi's hand and praised him, "Ah, I knew it, Xiang Xi, you're the best!"

  Zhan Zhao just smiled.

  "Come on, take off your clothes."

  Zhan Zhao: "......"

  Lu Xiaofeng innocently blinked his eyes, "I need to locate the acupoints, how can I do that if you don't take off your clothes?"

  "Miss, men and women are different..." Zhan Zhao really didn't know how to continue.

  "Yes, the girl is Xiao He, and the boy is you." But Xiao He was shy and afraid of pain, so she could only find him.

  Zhan Zhao's emotions were more complicated than ever at this moment.

  "Big talker, big man, once the word is out, it's hard to chase after a team of horses! Are you going back on your words? Little Phoenix glared at him unfriendly."

  Zhan Zhao smiled and said, "What Zhan Zhao says counts." After speaking, he put the sword in his hand on the table and began to untie his belt.

  Lu Xiaofeng hastily added a sentence, "Just take off your upper garment will be fine."

  Zhan Zhao's smile was more obvious this time.

  "Is it funny?" Little Phoenix Maiden was slightly annoyed.

  Zhan Zhao shook his head, "No." I thought you were really uninhibited, but it turns out that's not the case.

  As they spoke, he had already pulled his jacket halfway down to his waist, with the sleeves still covering his arms, so that in case of an emergency, he could instantly pull up his clothes.

  When Lu Xiaofeng saw the bare back of Zhan Zhao, he was taken aback by the several faint scars on his back. It turned out that the title of Southern Hero was not easily obtained, and he was not invincible either.

  "Speak up if you have anything to say."

  "Good."

  Lu Xiaofeng followed the position on the human acupoint chart and began to carefully insert needles into Zhan Zhao's back.

  They didn't close the door, so outsiders could see what was going on inside, being open and aboveboard, not afraid of being talked about.

  Xiaohe brought in tea, half-turned her body and put the tea on the table, not daring to glance sideways, but still blushing as she retreated.

  Lu Xiaofeng gently lifted the golden needle and smiled, "Xiaohe is really innocent, what's there to blush about?"

  Zhan Zhao didn't speak, he gathered his thoughts and dared not think too much. Her delicate fingers, soft as if boneless, occasionally pressed lightly on his back, and a faint fragrance wafted from her body, stirring up his heart and making him yearn for more, but he could only forcibly calm himself down.

  Bai Yutang was surprised when he saw this scene, and then playfully raised an eyebrow. He stepped in from outside with one foot and said, "Sixth sister, aren't you afraid of spring light leaking out with the door wide open like this?"

  Lu Xiaofeng raised his eyes and glanced over, saying disapprovingly: "This is what you call spring scenery? Bai Xiaowu, you really have no taste."

  Bai Yutang came with interest, "What's that? Sister, have you seen something even more intense than this?"

  "Don't assume everyone else's IQ is as low as yours." Little Phoenix shot back with a single arrow.

  "Hey, it seems like your IQ has been looked down upon! Bai Yutang leaned against the door with his Huaying sword, 'You're so clever, why did you hide in Kaifeng Prefecture? Can't you just directly tear off that fake medicine?' "

  Zhan Zhao looked at him with a hint of past memories.

  Bai Yutang raised an eyebrow provocatively.

  Lu Xiaofeng let out a "hiss" and pulled out the needle, saying: "If he were a fly, I'd squash him, but he's not. If I really killed him, that would be a crime, not worth it."

  As she spoke, she reached out and patted Zhan Zhao's back lightly, "Alright, that's it for now. Once Bai Yutang arrives, there's no way to continue anyway." This old mouse was only disrupting her focus.

  Zhan Zhao put on his clothes and formally greeted Bai Yutang, "Brother Bai, it's been a long time."

  "It's really good." Bai Yutang also walked over from the doorway and sat down at the table.

  "Zhan Huwei is really a worry, how could White Five Grandfather have a bad time." Lu Xiaofeng couldn't help but think that whenever he was forced to be in a situation where he had to deal with someone who was hard to get along with, he wouldn't be able to have a good attitude towards him.

  "Sixth sister, after all we are also eight-bai-zhi-jiao, you can't always be like this."

  "Hmm." Lu Xiaofeng responded with this single nasal sound, lowering his head to put away his needle case, ignoring him.

  "Who is this young master who has been relying on our small shop?"

  "Isn't Bai Wu Ye an exception with very well-informed news?" Do I still need to ask you?

  "I heard the shopkeeper say that since he went there, you ran away from the imperial palace to learn acupuncture."

  "Do you have an opinion?"

  "Nothing, I just wanted to ask your sister how her acupuncture skills are coming along?" White Yutang cleverly changed the subject.

  Lu Xiaofeng said calmly: "Just find a few more people to practice and it's all right." Doctors rely on rich experience, and paper talk is not feasible.

  Bai Yutang couldn't help but look at Zhan Zhao with sympathy.

  Zhan Zhao smiled but did not speak.

  This is indeed a perfect example of Zhou Yu beating Huang Gai, one willing to fight and the other willing to be beaten.

  "Big brother and them will come to Beijing recently, at that time everyone can have dinner together." It's also a formal meeting.

  Lu Xiaofeng did not answer immediately, but hesitated for a moment.

  Bai Yutang waited patiently.

  "When you arrive, notify me." No need to be at odds with Bai Lao Shu anymore, it's not bad to follow Wu Mao and become sworn brothers, just being a low-key one is fine.

  "I'll go ahead and leave first, I have something to attend to. I'll come back tonight." Bai Yutang was delighted, grabbed his Huaying sword and flipped over the roof with a somersault.

  Lu Xiaofeng was initially stunned, then couldn't help but burst out laughing at this white mouse——

  "Miss, would you like to continue?"

  Bei Zhaoyang asked this, Lu Xiaofeng was stunned for a moment, looked at the golden needle that had been put away, smiled and shook his head, "Forget it, I've troubled Zhao Wei for half a day, let me pour you a glass of water instead."

  Zhan Zhao took the tea water handed over by her and said, "Thank you."

  "Don't be so polite with me, it's making me feel awkward."

  "Can you dance?"

  "Of course, I will. You're being too polite, it makes me think you don't want me to ask for your help again next time. But I'll still come find you, and that would be quite embarrassing, wouldn't it?" Little Phoenix said with a straight face, not showing any embarrassment at all.

  "As long as I have time, I will never decline."

  "Alright, it's settled then."

  Looking at her outstretched palm, Zhan Zhao lost his smile and lightly tapped her palm with his own, "Is the young lady reassured now?"

  "Of course." Lu Xiao Feng smiled with sparkling eyes, then clapped her hands, "Ah, almost forgot something."

  Zhan Zhao looked at her in confusion.

  Little Phoenix Maiden took out a well-made sword tassel from her sleeve pocket and handed it over, "Hey, I've matched a sword tassel for your Longquan Sword, see if it fits?"

  "What did you do?" Zhan Zhao was slightly surprised.

  Xiao Feng felt a bit proud, "Yes, Xiao He also said that my embroidery is not good, and I definitely can't make a decent tassel. But making a simple tassel, this girl can still do it."

  Zhan Zhao smiled and took over the sword tassel, tied it to the Longquan Sword, "Looks great."

  Xiao Feng's aunt said with a complacent smile: "That's it, doesn't even look at who did it."

  Zhan Zhao smiled, and at this moment, she looked more like a girl in her teenage years with a naive and romantic appearance.

  "Zhan Zhao."

  "Huh?" How did you suddenly lose your energy again?

  Lu Xiaofeng leaned on the table, looking out the door with a frown, "The weather is going to be cold again, and I still haven't mastered acupuncture, it seems like I won't be able to leave Beijing this year."

  Zhan Zhao shook his head, unsure of what to say.

  "I want to stay in the capital for a while longer, but as I get older day by day, my adoptive parents will start to worry too. It's so annoying!" She didn't want to marry someone here at all.

  "It's better to be a man, no one will rush you into marriage." Look at this cat, it's been a single, middle-aged youth for so long, and yet it's still single, it's really enviable.

  "How could this be? Of the three unfilial acts, having no descendants is the worst."

  Little Phoenix girl tilted her head and glanced at him, humming a sound, pouting: "Do you really have this in mind? I think you're quite happy being an old bachelor."

  Zhan Zhao: "......"

  After calming down, Zhan Zhao said: "Forced marriage is not going to work."

  "Don't joke around, at this time it's all about parental orders and matchmaker's words, in the end it's just a forced arrangement, not like we're mutually in love."

  "Didn't you say that marriage is up to oneself?"

  Lu Xiaofeng nodded, looking at the door with a somewhat distracted expression: "It's up to oneself, but on one condition - I can't always be alone in front of them, right? So, it's still best to leave the capital as soon as possible." When the time comes and they are out of reach, there will be nothing to fear.

  Zhan Zhao didn't hesitate, what she said was indeed a trouble.

  "I won't think about it anymore, when the car reaches the mountain, there will be a road. I just don't believe I can't handle it." In her previous life, she had dealt with a family of old foxes and tyrannical dragons, hadn't she?

  Zhan Zhao was amused by her own muttering, yeah, he also thought she could handle Pang Taishi.

  "Lu's daughter."

  "Huh?"

  Zhan Zhao hesitated for a moment before saying: "The Xiao Shang Wang Fu..."

  Lu Xiaofeng's eyes widened in anger, and he slammed his hand on the table. "Zhan Xiaomao, you actually investigated me?"

  "Don't be angry, Miss. Zhan Zhao is just worried."

  Lu Xiaofeng gave him a white eye, "I don't know what you're worried about, do I look like someone who doesn't have a brain?" I already knew he would die from heavenly punishment, and even if I didn't do anything, I could still see him getting himself killed. My concern for him was just to try to reduce the tragedy that might happen.

  After all, in the end, the Yang family was left with only one Yang Jiaobao, which is really too unjust.

  Yang Jia Jiang and Bao Qing Tian are both idols of my sister, although they cannot represent the moon to punish that beast Chai Wen Yi, but it's no big deal to pretend to be a city manager.

  You're not like that, but you can be quite intimidating when you get bold, this sentence Zhan Zhao didn't dare to say out loud, otherwise this girl would definitely turn hostile.

  "Zhan Zhao only hopes Miss won't put herself in danger." After all, you're a young lady, even if you always forget that.

  "When there's danger, I'll call you." Little Phoenix girl was very familiar with pulling relationships.

  "Good." Zhan Zhao responded more readily, with him by her side, she was always well protected.

  "Really? Fake?" Little Phoenix's smile turned mischievous as she leaned in close to Zhan Zhao, "You'll accompany me even if I kill people and set fires?"

  "As long as the girl is willing."

  "Alright," Lu Xiao Feng said in a masculine tone, slapping Zhang Zhao's chest with the back of his hand, and laughed loudly: "Zhang Xiaomao, you're really a man of your word, no need to say more, I've made friends with you for sure."

  Zhan Zhao could only watch her without speaking, now he's starting to worry that one day she'll drag him into a sworn brotherhood.

  That Bai Yutang is really a terrible role model!

  As Gu Sun Ce passed by, he heard Xiaofeng's words and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, thinking that Zhan Huwei's path to love was indeed bumpy.

  However, the future is still bright.

  Thinking of this, Gong Sun Ce couldn't help but laugh silently again, and continued walking forward to attend to his own matters.