Chapter 20: Doctor and Patient

At this moment, Lu Xingzhou is taking Anu to eat in Shen Tang’s courtyard.

A square table, four people sitting, two facing each other in wheelchairs. Dugu Qingli eats in small bites, Anu stares at Dugu Qingli with big eyes.

Dugu Qingli doesn't know why this little brat suddenly kept looking at herself, is it because she pushed the wheelchair and moved your exclusive?

No one loves to push that thing, no one is fighting with you.

Shen Tang is asking Lu Xingzhou: "What did you say finally came?"

"Oh, nothing." Lu Xingzhou smiled: "Shrink the chamber of commerce’s actions recently, try to go out as little as possible. Neighbors across the street have come. Their family has a bad reputation in Xiazhou, bullying the neighbors and acting recklessly. We are so close, it’s easy to bump into them."

Shen Tang knows that Lu Xingzhou has set up many arrays inside and outside this residence, and even Dugu Qingli’s secret peeping could be discovered by him, and it is impossible to hide from his perception if someone passes by outside.

Of course, this kind of thing can’t see bathing... Lu Xingzhou’s strength is only seventh-grade, and he doesn't have any magical divine sense.

Hearing this, she didn't feel strange, and laughed: "You are actually afraid of bad neighbors?"

"After all, it is the Grand Tutor’s family, who is not afraid of a few points." Lu Xingzhou ate slowly, casually: "I want to remind you that those who can be City Lords in Xiazhou must have secretly surrendered to the Grand Tutor’s mansion, and they don't show it on the surface. So Xu Bingkun can never be considered your person, just surface work."

"I have numbers."

"Since you have numbers, you should know that Xu Bingkun cannot openly deal with you, but he can incite the Huo family to mess around. It has nothing to do with where you live." Lu Xingzhou asked casually: "Do you have a plan?"

Shen Tang didn't answer but asked: "What ideas do you have?"

"No." Lu Xingzhou said slowly: "The Huo family came for the Huo residence murder case, which is their first priority, so they won't be distracted by other things under normal circumstances, so you shrink back. Unless Huo Yu is really an iron idiot... Anyway, there will be changes by then."

Shen Tang looked at him, and Lu Xingzhou’s expression remained normal.

Shen Tang suddenly smiled: "You are eating, and you say so many serious things. How is the craftsmanship of the cook we recruited?"

"Delicious!" Anu raised her hand, and apologized: "Sister, can I come to eat anytime in the future?"

Shen Tang smiled with her eyes curved, and couldn't help reaching out to pinch Anu’s cheeks: "You can come to eat whenever you want. Oh, by the way, there is still some sugar here, take it back to eat."

Anu was overjoyed: "Sister, you are my own sister!"

Lu Xingzhou was somewhat helpless. If he had any shortcomings in raising a baby all these years, it was that he really couldn't make delicious food for her. The child eats pills as a meal every day, the energy is strong, but it can’t cure the gluttony...

But Anu is not easy to abduct. Yuan Muyu also liked the soft and cute appearance of this little baby very much, and small snacks were not repeated every day. Anu also called Sister Fish one by one more sweetly than anyone else. As a result, when he Lu Xingzhou wanted to leave, Anu pushed the wheelchair and left without saying a word, and secretly whispered that her face was not as round as Anu’s.

I don't know if Yuan Muyu scolded this little white-eyed wolf behind her back.

The memory flashed away, Lu Xingzhou looked at Shen Tang’s gentle smile, and his eyes became softer unconsciously: "We are full, thank you, Miss Shen."

Shen Tang tilted her head and glanced at him: "You must call it so raw?"

Lu Xingzhou smiled: "This should be blamed on you."

Shen Tang was stunned: "How?"

"Single-character names are not convenient to call." Lu Xingzhou looked at Dugu Qingli who was silent beside him seriously: "For example, I am very happy to call Miss Qingli’s name directly."

Dugu Qingli’s cheeks moved, too lazy to pay attention to him.

However, his attitude... seems to be really not looking at a monster, but always has an inexplicable closeness, which is really strange. Dugu Qingli has seen many people treat her as a monster in her life, or because of her indifference, they are naturally indifferent to her, which is common. She has never had Lu Xingzhou’s attitude, which makes her very confused.

Am I really a very beautiful flower?

No one has ever said that.

Shen Tang laughed: "Does this count as a thing? Just call Shen Tang."

"Good." Lu Xingzhou said readily: "You said you didn't want to talk about serious things when eating, so let’s talk about your personal affairs, how about it?"

Shen Tang wondered: "What?"

Lu Xingzhou pointed to her leg: "You have lived in this spiritual energy for some time, how do you feel about your leg?"

Shen Tang became serious: "Originally, there was no feeling below the knee, but now I feel itchy very occasionally. Is this a sign of improvement?"

"Yes, undoubtedly." Lu Xingzhou pondered for a moment and tried to ask: "Are you... willing to let me see your leg?"

Two women and an Anu, all looked up at him.

Lu Xingzhou was somewhat embarrassed, but still said: "I don't know what you think. I am clearly an alchemist and I have to treat my own leg, which shows that my research on treating legs is very deep. Even when you and I were not familiar with each other, it was normal to ask for medical treatment. You pay some consultation fees, but you have never intended to call me to see it. Why is this?"

Shen Tang’s face stiffened: "Because I don't want you to make money, I plan to wait until I get familiar with it and then do it for free."

Lu Xingzhou didn't believe this at all: "I think it may be because treating legs must involve physical contact, and it is inconvenient for men and women, so you don't want me to see it... But from the perspective of doctor and patient, you really don't need to think so."

Shen Tang stopped talking, of course, that was the reason.

Tendon and bone injuries are not like internal organs. Chen Zhangsi can analyze that his internal organs have some problems by looking at Lu Xingzhou’s complexion. Tendons and bones cannot be seen from the complexion, and it must be touched by hand.

Being grabbed by a man and touched on the calf, Shen Tang would not agree. Therefore, even though she knew that Lu Xingzhou’s research on this must be very deep, she held back and didn't say she wanted him to treat it.

Dugu Qingli also reacted and immediately said: "Lu Xingzhou makes sense. If you insist on finding a suitable female doctor, it will cause delay and delay treatment, which is the real putting the cart before the horse and not worth the loss."

Shen Tang glared at her: "Then you let him touch it."

Dugu Qingli didn't understand: "The one with the injured leg is not me."

Shen Tang held back a breath and didn't know how to say it, so she simply said angrily: "I won't give money."

Anu’s eyes were round and round, secretly thinking that this matter might be Master willing to give you money in reverse...

In the strange atmosphere, Lu Xingzhou rowed his wheelchair around the dining table to Shen Tang, and the two looked at each other for a while, but always felt that this posture was very inconvenient. Lu Xingzhou thought about it and turned the wheelchair ninety degrees, sideways in front of Shen Tang.

Anu understood and stepped forward to lift Shen Tang’s leg and put it on Lu Xingzhou’s lap. Anu was very familiar with the assistant’s work.

Shen Tang turned her head away and didn't look. Her originally atmospheric and gentle face finally revealed a little crimson, and then spread more and more, straight to the snow-white neck.

Lu Xingzhou actually didn't have any strange thoughts, reached out and pinched the calf, and found that the touch was quite elastic, and the muscles were not atrophied like his own.

It feels good to touch...

Dugu Qingli subconsciously stretched her neck.

"Do you feel it?" Lu Xingzhou pinched hard and suddenly asked.

Shen Tang turned her head away, her voice seemed to come from her nose: "No."

Suddenly feeling that it didn't matter anyway, it seemed that there was really nothing, so she quietly turned her head back and stole a glance at Lu Xingzhou.

Lu Xingzhou was checking seriously and didn't look up at her. That serious look... is really good-looking.

After a while, Lu Xingzhou coughed: "I... need to lift your skirt."

Shen Tang’s face was as red as blood, biting her lower lip tightly, and it took a long time to say "Hmm."

Lu Xingzhou lifted her skirt, straight to the knee, revealing two round and slender calves below.

The skin is like jade, crystal clear and snow-white, the touch is warm and elastic, and Lu Xingzhou’s heart, which has had no ups and downs, jumped unconsciously, and his face began to turn a little red.

Shen Tang looked at his face, so she

The atmosphere was quiet for a moment, so quiet that A-Nuo held her breath. She felt as if there was a thumping sound in the air, like a drum.

Lu Xingzhou's hand rested on the two scars below Shen Tang's knee, and a soft light suddenly bloomed from his fingertips.

Shen Tang let out a soft "oh," her whole body trembling slightly.

That sound was extremely bewitching. Lu Xingzhou held back his expression and hurriedly asked about the serious business to distract himself: "Do you feel anything? Besides numbness and itching, does it hurt?"

Shen Tang pursed her lips for a long time before responding in a low voice: "It doesn't hurt."

Her beautiful eyes drifted, inadvertently glancing at the side of her lower leg, where there seemed to be a tent.

She spat internally and turned her head away, silent.

So much for not thinking about the doctor-patient relationship... Your performance proves that the previous concerns were not wrong.

"Pain is better than no pain. No pain actually proves that what could have been a simple early treatment has been dragged by you until it's serious." Lu Xingzhou frowned: "Your leg injury wasn't originally in the troublesome category... Forgive my bluntness, but the identities of both you and Qingli are definitely not simple. Finding medicine shouldn't be as difficult for you as it is for me. Why drag it out until now?"

Shen Tang said in a muffled voice: "At first, there was truly no time. Enemies were blocking me. Qingli escorted me to meet up with Uncle Zhong and the others, and then we headed straight for Xiazhou. I initially thought Xiazhou had a rich medical atmosphere and it wouldn't be too hard, but after arriving, I discovered the medicine in Xiazhou is so low-level... When I found out you couldn't even treat your own leg, my heart went cold."

"What about the forces behind you?"

Shen Tang did not expect Lu Xingzhou to lay it out so clearly. After thinking for a while, she decided to tell the truth: "They dare not contact me easily before resolving certain matters, fearing it might leak my whereabouts. Qingli was sent to follow and protect me because her reputation in the world is not prominent and no one knows her."

"In other words, even if you have heaven-reaching backing, you can't use it in the short term."

"Yes."

"Then you should have sought help from Commandant Chen earlier. Was it also because he is a man? Nonsense." Lu Xingzhou said with a straight face: "Everyone's injury situation is different. My difficulty in treatment doesn't mean yours is difficult. Not only are my tendons severed, but my knee joint is shattered, and I dragged it for ten years until the muscles atrophied. Can you compare your mere severed tendon to me?"

Shen Tang stole a glance at his angry expression and found it quite interesting: "You... what are you angry about?"

Lu Xingzhou was stunned. He couldn't come up with a reason for a long time, and finally said: "Doctors get angry when they see patients who don't cherish their own bodies."

Shen Tang said softly: "Then now that I have entrusted myself to you, Mr. Lu, are you willing to help me get better?"

Lu Xingzhou was silent for a long while. He helped her cover her legs with her skirt and lowered it: "The medicine for reconnecting tendons is not very difficult to refine; its grade is only sixth-grade. But the main ingredients are often rare and hard to find; Xiazhou truly doesn't have them. I will give you a list. You can have your subordinates look for them first, but be prepared for the possibility that you won't find them in the short term... But you must be aware that for every day you drag it out, the difficulty of your treatment increases by a point. Don't drag it out until you're like me."

Shen Tang's beautiful eyes fixed on his face for a long time: "Okay."

"Don't think about finding them for me. Our situations are different, and the required medicinal materials are not the same." Lu Xingzhou said, suddenly changing the subject: "By the way, A-Nuo and I won't be staying here these next few days. We'll talk once you've found the materials."