Chapter 42 The Roar of Bones

Chapter 42 The Roar of Bones

All the lights in the infirmary were turned on. Dr. Wang, his assistant and several nurses were waiting at the door. When Lu Ji appeared in the corridor with Shang Nan in his arms, Dr. Wang's expression condensed. He strode over and heard a voice from under the mask.He sounded serious and worried, "Xiaonan was seriously injured?"

The cut on his neck had scabbed over, and it looked a bit serious, but I thought it was just a broken skin, and the wound wasn't too deep. Besides, there were two bruises on his face.

Lu Ji handed Shannan to the doctor, "Let's have a good check-up."

Shannan passed out, not asleep.

The drunkenness and several heavy falls had exceeded the physical endurance limit of a young boy. 14 could only make him feel no pain, but it could not really eliminate the damage suffered by Shannan's body.

Lu Ji was sitting on the bench outside, his eyes calm and peaceful. He had been ill for many years. After falling off the horse, he looked like the dead trees in the house. The leaves may still be green, but the trunks are not.It has already lost all its nutrients. If the wind is strong enough, it will be cut off. Even if it continues, the green leaves will gradually wither and turn yellow due to the loss of nutritional support for a long time.

But he is Lu Shen.

He is not exactly Lu Ji.

The windows on both sides of the corridor are open and have been disinfected not long ago to facilitate ventilation.The wind came in from the west, penetrated the entire corridor, and then squeezed out through the windows on the east side.

Lu Ji lowered his eyes and looked pale, but not a single cough was heard in the maddeningly cold corridor.

After a long time, Dr. Wang came out with the test results. As soon as he stood in the corridor, he shivered with cold. He walked towards Lu Ji, stood still, and explained the results to Lu Ji one by one.

"There is a slight concussion and a knife cut on the neck. The wound is not deep, but in order to prevent infection, we gave Xiaonan a shot of vaccine. There are varying degrees of bruises on the back. I have prescribed medicine."

"Xiaonan fell and fell on his head. We did a skull examination and found no signs of bleeding inside. However, we still need to pay special attention to him in the past few days. If he develops symptoms of dizziness and vomiting, he should come over immediately for another examination."

Lu Ji said "Yeah".

Dr. Wang hesitated for a while and said tentatively: "You don't seem to be looking well. Do you need an examination?"

Hearing this, Lu Ji laughed self-deprecatingly, "It's an old problem, so don't be nervous."

At this moment, there were only two doctors, Lu Ji and Dr. Wang, in the corridor. As a doctor, it didn’t matter who the patient was. Recovering from the disease was his first priority. He looked at Lu Ji worriedly, "The last checkup was two months ago.Mr. Lu is very concerned about your physical condition. Even if it is to reassure Mr. Lu, young master, you must take good care of your body."

The Mr. Lu that Dr. Wang refers to is Lu Xiao. Lu Xiao can be said to be the person in the world who cares most about Lu Ji's health. His concern for Lu Ji is even far greater than that of a father for his son.

Lu Ji coughed a few times before answering Dr. Wang, "I feel pretty good now. I think I might get better."

He smiled, his dark eyes rippling gently like a lake in spring.

Lu Ji said this because he didn't want to die.But in the eyes of Dr. Wang, he felt doubly sad. It was impossible for Lu Ji to get better. He had at most three to five years left to live. But despite this, Dr. Wang still wanted to buy some time from the god of death.Lu Ji - Lu Ji is really such a pity.

In the infirmary, the doctor's assistants and nurses were still applying medicine to the bruises on Shang Nan's body. Lu Ji was raising him like a baby. His skin also showed how delicate his master was. The bruises on his back looked like they had been glued.Large pieces of paint were applied, and the original skin color was interspersed among them, dividing the bruises into irregular large pieces. There were even impact injuries on the knees and calves.

On the way to pick up Shannan, Lu Ji thought about something.

What he was thinking about at first was not admiring Nan, but when he saw that his eldest sister, who was married off, would bring her husband's children home to visit relatives after a few years, with a smile on her face. It could be seen that she was living a good life.Happiness, life goes well.The eldest aunt and uncle who were initially reluctant to let their daughter get married would wait at the door to greet the eldest sister early every time she came home. However, they seemed very happy and never cried like they did on the day the eldest sister got married.

Elders who love their children will be sincerely happy for their children to live well.

Lu Ji sat in the back seat and looked at the empty fields. He replaced his uncle with himself and his eldest sister with Shannan, and then asked himself if he would sincerely feel that Shannan had his own family like his uncle.happy?

The answer is no.

To put it another way, if Shannan stood in front of him in the future with his beloved girl and boy, and happily introduced him to him as his lover, would he be sincerely happy?

The answer is still no.

His child should naturally be by his side until death, and he didn't mind Shannan treating him as his father, his brother, and a good person from the Lu family who met by chance.Because he can be Shang Nan's father, brother, or a good person.

But if they stay together until death, Lu Ji thinks that the identity of lover is more suitable for him and Shannan.

Shang Nan slept drowsily until the next morning. Perhaps the time limit for redeeming points had expired. As soon as Shang Nan opened his eyes, he was immediately shaken by the pain in his back. He immediately asked 14 to be given to him again.Continued.

The sky was completely bright, but it was still covered with a layer of fog. The hands of the clock on the wall pointed to nine o'clock. He slept all night, and his last impression stopped at the scene of the conversation with Lu Ji in the car last night.

Although he suffered a crime, Lu Ji stopped talking about him and gave him the answer directly. Shannan still felt that it was worth it.

He opened the quilt, which was as fluffy as cotton, and slapped it with his hand, making a "bang" sound.

The door to the room also opened at this time.

Shan Nan lay still on the bed and looked at Lu Ji, who was walking towards him. Lu Ji's face looked better than yesterday, but not much better.

"Are you awake?" Lu Ji sat down on the edge of the bed.

Shang Nan pulled the quilt back and covered half of his face. For some reason, he felt that Lu Ji's eyes were strange, not the same as before. There were other things mixed in the gentleness, but Lu Ji's eyes were strange.He is a very gentle person, so if you don't feel it carefully, you can't notice the difference at all.

"Do you feel better than yesterday?" Lu Ji thought Shannan felt cold, so he stretched out his hand to press the quilt tighter. After finishing it, he said, "Your injuries need medicine every day. Do you go to the infirmary to see the doctor?"Should I do it for you, or should I do it for you?"

Shannan hesitated, "Doctor."

He knew where his injuries were, but he was embarrassed. He felt that his relationship with Lu Ji was not good enough to let Lu Ji give him medicine.

Lu Ji didn't say anything, but patted the quilt and said, "I asked Lu Xiang to make breakfast for you. What do you want to eat?"

"As long as it was Mrs. Xiang who did it." After Shannan answered, his tone suddenly paused, "Brother, you didn't punish Mrs. Xiang yesterday, right?"

He knew what kind of person Lu Shen was, and he also knew what kind of person Lu Shen was, who was now a skeleton. No matter how gentle he was, he could not erase his original identity, so Mrs. Xiang was so scared yesterday.

Shang Nan's words made Lu Ji laugh, "Why should I punish her? Because you drank? Shouldn't you be the one who gets punished?"

Lu Ji's three consecutive questions made Shan Nan's head spin. His original intention was to show concern for Mrs. Xiang, and he had no intention of punishing himself.

Seeing Shan Nan was stunned, Lu Ji leaned over and their eyes met. Lu Ji asked calmly: "Lu Xiang brought the jar of rice wine back. If you like it, you can drink less every day."

Shang Nan was lying on the bed, so he was very passive. Although he already felt a little uncomfortable, he thought that Lu Ji had been similar to this before. He blinked a few times, and even his eyes seemed to be restricted by Lu Ji.Unable to look anywhere else.

"Mrs. Xiang told me that the Lu family's family rules do not allow minors to drink alcohol." Shannan whispered.

Lu Ji said: "You are not allowed to drink alcohol at all. You can drink a small amount. Of course, the amount you drink when you are sixteen and when you are an adult is different."

Knowing that Mrs. Xiang had not been punished, Shannan was relieved. Next, he responded to Lu Ji's words, "Okay... okay."

Lu Ji didn't stay in Shannan's room for too long. He seemed to have something to do. After talking to Shannan for a while, he left. After he left, Shannan got up from the bed with difficulty and went to the bathroom to wash up.Then he lay back on the bed.

When Mrs. Xiang came in with breakfast, Shannan was about to fall asleep again. His body was in the recovery period. Shannan couldn't resist the feeling of exhaustion at all. He leaned on the bedside, ate less than half a bowl of wontons, and handed the bowl back to Xiang.Madam, said: "My brother said underage people can drink, but not too much."

Mrs. Xiang was startled, and then the expression on her face became a little complicated, "That should only be aimed at you."

Shang Nan: "..."

Seeing that Shonan was silent, Mrs. Xiang sighed, and then said, "Except for you, I have never seen the young master treat anyone so kindly." She had already sensed that something was wrong with Lu Ji. For hundreds of years, neither she nor Lu Ji was the same person.Live in vain.

Shang Nan looked at Mrs. Xiang and wondered, "Why did you say that suddenly?"

Shan Nan knew that Lu Ji was good to him and was the best person to him in the entire Lu family.Of course Mrs. Xiang was good to him, but he also understood that Mrs. Xiang's good treatment to him was based on the premise that Lu Ji was good to him.If Lu Ji is the person who hates him the most in the entire Lu family, then Mrs. Xiang will be too.

The reason why Lu Ji was nice to him, Shannan thought, was because he was the one he chose to accompany him, just like pet cats and dogs. If he also had a cat, Shannan would also be kind to cats and dogs..

Of course, Shan Nan does not mean that he is a cat or a dog, this is just a metaphor.

Mrs. Xiang did not answer Shannan immediately, but remained silent for a few seconds, "The young master has not been married yet."

Shang Nan blinked and became even more confused, "Then what?"

"I'm talking about Lu Shen, not the current Lu Ji." Mrs. Xiang sat on the stool, seeming to recall the past. "At that time, those princesses and other girls secretly expressed their love for the young master. The matchmaker even stood at the gate.People squatted around the side door, wanting to marry the young master, but the young master, although gentle, was never close to women or men. Oh, speaking of the matter of being close to men, the lineage of the second uncle of the young master seems to be that every generationThere will always be a good man."

"Actually, lustful men are not a big problem, but at that time, the Lu family's family rules were very strict, and many of them would fight against each other, and some even died in depression. It wasn't until more than two hundred years ago that the young master and his second uncle...A man with a strong pulse actually led a man in a wedding dress and paraded through the street."

"Everyone suffers. The head of the Lu family at that time really had no choice but to bite the bullet and say that true love is invincible."

"The young master expressed his opinion on this matter once. He is more open-minded than I thought. He said that we should not put restrictions on love, because some people may like neither men nor women, and may like someone other than a human being., because there are not only two living creatures in the world: men and women.”

Mrs. Xiang gushed.

Lu Xiang always likes to go off-topic when talking, and Shan Nan knows that, but why would he stray into the topic of good men for no reason? Shan Nan is a little confused.

"What does this have to do with my brother?"

Mrs. Xiang's memory was interrupted. She cleared her throat and locked her eyes on Shannan's face. She seemed to want to say something, but she held it back, "It doesn't matter."

"You can tell me what you want to eat. I'll leave first. You can have a good rest."

Shortly after Mrs. Xiang left, Shannan nestled in the soft quilt and fell asleep again, but this time his sleep was not so peaceful.

He had a dream. He dreamed of the butcher with a fleshy face last night, holding up a knife to drain his own blood. Then Lu Ji came, but Lu Ji did not save him. Lu Ji stood at the door and spoke with gentleness.He said in an incomparable tone: "Xiao Nan, I like you the most."

It's obviously a line that doesn't match the scene at all.

The fishy smell of raw meat on the butcher's body, the cold dust of the warehouse, and the smell of blood on the blade mean blood and violence. It is definitely not a suitable place to say "I like you".

But in the dream, Shang Nan felt that it was not awkward or inconsistent at all.

This dream repeated three, four, or five times. Shannan struggled in the chaos and fear three, four, or five times, but could not wake up.

Winter turns to spring, and the Lu family's old house wakes up from the dull winter. The manor is covered with a thin layer of green, but the chill has not faded away. Last year, the Lu family came to enjoy the south during this season, and a year has passed in the blink of an eye.

The roses in the land and rose garden are also in bloom.

It is not a red rose, but a rare white rose. The flower head is large and snow-white, and the branches are thick and covered with thorns, standing in the wind.

"Are they all cursed people?"

[14: Pretty much, monsters don’t harm people for no reason. The monster’s resentment is very strong, and those who feel sorry for him will be backlashed. But here in Luji, because he was a person from more than 600 years ago after all, the rules are not the same.There are many, so those who don't respect him will be backlashed and cursed.]

Lu Ji's health has improved a lot recently. On such a cold early spring day, as long as he wears thicker clothes, he won't be constantly coughing and catching cold.

When Shannan first arrived last year, there was just a gust of wind at night, and Lu Ji was pulled into the emergency room.

It is conscientiously fulfilling its commitment to appreciating the South.

There was a cardboard box at Mrs. Xiang's feet. She was becoming more and more fashionable, wearing a floral short woolen skirt and white short boots. Even though they were pruning roses in the rose garden at the moment, she just tied a piece of broken hair in her hair.Flower headscarf... a charming country girl.

Shang Nan did not participate in this kind of work. He watched with his three dogs as Mrs. Xiang and Lu Ji cut the budding roses. The cut roses could fill all the vases in Lu's house.

In order to facilitate vase placement, the length of each rose is guaranteed to be between 60 and 75 centimeters. Garden scissors are extremely sharp. No matter how thick the flower branches are, they can be successfully cut with just one scissors.

Listening to the "stuck" sound in his ears, Shannan looked at more and more white roses in the cardboard box. He suddenly thought, does this count as cutting off people's heads?

[14: Of course not, they are already roses.]

Mrs. Xiang bent down and searched for something in the rows. She searched very seriously, and her eyes swept over the dense flower branches. "Last winter, I remembered that he appeared at this location, and I tied a flower to him."brand."

"Found it!" Mrs. Xiang stopped in front of a rose with a particularly large and bright flower head, and pulled off the sign from above, with a simple pig's head drawn on it.

Mrs. Xiang cut off the rose with scissors, walked through the rose garden, came to Shan Nan, and threw the rose into his hand, "Here, here it is for you."

Shan Nan lowered his head. The head of the rose that Mrs. Xiang gave him was particularly big, bigger than the rose heads in the box. The petals should be stunning when opened. Even the branches were thicker than those roses, and the leaves were fatter and wider.

They are also roses in a rose garden, but this rose is too outstanding.

[14: It’s the butcher.]

Shang Nan looked at the rose with gleaming white petals under the sun. He stayed for a while, then reached out and picked up the rose in his hand, "Thank you...Mrs. Xie Xiang."

Seeing Shang Nan's men, Mrs. Xiang pursed her lips and smiled, "You're welcome." After saying that, she turned and left.

Will it really turn into a rose?

The butcher grows really well in this rose garden. Is it because he is already very big, or because he is a butcher and has a lot of oil and water, so he has a lot of nutrients.

Shang Nan felt a little scared.

Lu Zhai seems prosperous and peaceful. Lu Li and the others go to and from get out of class on time every day, and gather at the stadium or Miwu Mountain to play on weekends.Lu Ji is gentle, considerate, polite, and her health is gradually improving. Mrs. Xiang is still the same elegant and beautiful lady.

But this is just the surface. The head of the Lu family uses Lu Shen to sacrifice in order to make the Lu family prosperous for hundreds of years.As for Lu Ji, Lu Ji was very satisfied with the boxes of roses he had cut.

Shang Nan felt that the rose in his hand did not have the fragrance of white roses. Instead, the palm of his hand was a little greasy. It must be a psychological effect. He only held it for a while and then put it aside. Not long after he put it away, the screwdriver rushed over and tore the rose apart.They were bitten to pieces, leaving white broken petals all over the ground, leaving the stamens on the branches.

Of the more than 20,000 roses, Mrs. Lu and Hexiang did not cut many, leaving the rest to professionals.

Lu Ji handed the scissors to Mrs. Xiang and put down his sleeves. He was not even wearing a coat. He was wearing a white cotton shirt and long suit trousers. His temperament was elegant and restrained.A thin layer of sweat broke out on the young man's forehead. The feeling of weakness last year had faded a lot. Now at least it was not obvious that he was a serious patient.

"My father will come to the old house in three months, and the whole family will have a meal together. I have mentioned you to him, and he should like you." Lu Ji stood next to Shang Nan, using his paws to pick at his collarbone.The trouser legs were gently kicked away.

Shannan felt that the sentence "My father should like you" was weird, and he knew that Lu Xiao was not a good person. He would not care whether Lu Xiao liked him or not, and he would not care if he was liked by such a person.How honored you would feel.

Mrs. Xiang walked through the flowers, with a few leaves on her skirt and a few roses whose thorns had been shaved off in her hands. She participated in the conversation between Shang Nan and Lu Ji, "Not only will Mr. Lu come,Master Lu Huan will also be back, and he said on the phone that he misses everyone very much."

Shang Nan needed a character introduction. He had never heard of the name Lu Huan.

[14: Lu Huan is Lu Ji’s second uncle. He is 42 years old and is still unmarried. He believes in true love. If he does not meet true love, he will not get married.]

"That is a very annoying man." Mrs. Xiang handed the rose to the flower arranger and pulled off the flower headscarf, "Because he likes men..."

"Lu Xiang?"

Before Shan Nan could express his opinion, Lu Ji interrupted Mrs. Xiang's words, with a hint of warning in his tone.

Mrs. Xiang awkwardly fanned the wind with her scarf, looked around, turned around and walked towards the people who were grading the cut roses, "Can I help you?"

How dare they ask Lu Ji's housekeeper for help? They all shook their heads and said no.

But Mrs. Xiang insisted on blending in with them.

Shan Nan was a little distracted. It had nothing to do with him whether Lu Huan liked men or women. He was thinking about Lu Xiao. Why did Lu Xiao return to Lu's house in three months?

Before that, in the year since he came to the Lu family, Lu Xiao had not come back even once.

He can probably guess what the head of the family is thinking. If something happens here, he will naturally receive a notification. If he does not receive any news, it means that everything is the same as before - the kids are fighting over the position of the heir.Blood flowed, but Lu Ji's body still didn't get any better.

Then when he came back this time, the infirmary should have reported to him the "good news" that Lu Ji's body had recovered a lot.

This is good news for many people, even Lu Li, who really, really wants to be the female head of the family, sincerely hopes that her brother will get better soon.

But Shannan knew that this news was not good news for Lu Xiao.

He is the person who wants Lu Ji to be weak the most, even if he is Lu Ji's father, a character who should love Lu Ji most.

The more I think about admiring the south, the more serious I become.

While he was distracted for most of the time, Lu Ji had already looked at him for a long time. The child had grown up and was completely different from when he came here. However, at that time, Lu Ji felt that he might have thought that his child was the best no matter what.Yes, he didn’t think there was anything bad about Shang Nan until he compared it with his current appearance. Shang Nan at that time could actually be described as fair-skinned and thin. He was malnourished and unhealthy, rather than fair like now.They are like thick white rose petals, as if you can squeeze out the juice by pinching them.

It is true that the Lu family's family rules do not explicitly stipulate that minors must abstain from alcohol, but it is a rule that has existed hundreds of years ago that minors are not allowed to fall in love.

So we have to wait a little longer.

Lu Ji squatted down in front of Shan Nan, reached out and touched Shan Nan's hair, "What are you thinking about?"

Shan Nan was startled and quickly found a reason to answer, "I was wondering if Mr. Lu looks similar to you?"

"Well," Lu Ji did not answer the question directly. After pondering for a few seconds, he asked about Shang Nan, "Aren't you curious about Lu Huan?"

"Why are you curious?" Shannan crossed his legs.

"Lu Xiang said he likes men. I thought you would be surprised or curious." Because Xiaonan has always behaved as a very curious child.

Shang Nan shook his head, "I'm not curious about him."

He denied it seriously, and Lu Ji laughed at him, "Then why do you usually have so many problems with me?"

This question is easy to answer, and Shan Nan almost didn't spend time thinking about the answer. "I'm not curious about him, but I am very curious about you." Of course he should be curious about Lu Ji, who is his mission target and the person in this world.The most important people to Shang Nan are all other people except Lu Ji. It can be said that the center of his world is Lu Ji.

Because he was not lying and because he was telling the truth, the boy's expression looked extremely sincere.

Sincerity is the most touching thing. Lu Ji's fingers clasped on his knees shook. He lowered his eyes and laughed, his thin white eyelids blocking the rising love.

The wind swept from the direction of the rose garden, and the air was filled with the fragrance of white roses.

Lu Ji felt that the wind was blowing too lightly, the fragrance of the flowers was too light, and the time passed too slowly, so he could not kiss his child at this moment.