Finally appeasing him, Si Qingyu sighed in her heart and walked back to the medicine cabinet, picking up the purple brush and continuing to write on the white paper.

The medical hall was unusually quiet. Usually, it was just her and Zhao Sixi. Zhao Sixi would occasionally chat with her when she was tired or bored from working, although at that time it was her talking to herself. But now, let alone talking, Si Qingyu felt that even her breathing was lighter than usual.

The most leisurely person in the medical hall was Luo Shaoxuan. He was sitting directly facing Si Qingyu’s direction, propping his chin and staring at her without blinking.

Being stared at like this without fail made Si Qingyu’s brush strokes a bit messy. When she wrote the fifth character wrong, Si Qingyu sighed and looked at him helplessly, “Shaoxuan……” Can you not look at me like this?

“Hm?” The man tilted his head slightly as if puzzled, his beautiful eyes sparkling with fine radiance, dazzlingly beautiful.

Looking at Luo Shaoxuan like this, Si Qingyu was instantly at a loss for words, unable to say what she wanted to say.

She glanced outside at the scorching sun high in the sky, it should be close to noon. She put the purple brush aside, “Shaoxuan, let me take you out for lunch.”

Luo Shaoxuan raised the corners of his lips, put down the hand propping his chin and sat up straight, nodding in agreement.

Si Qingyu looked at Zhao Sixi who was silent beside her, “Sixi, do you want to come along?” Although she knew she definitely wouldn’t want to go with them.

As expected, the small figure squatting in the corner with her back to them shook her head in a small arc, saying in a muffled voice, “Physician Si, I won’t go. You and Young Master Luo can go.” She was now immersed in her own dejection.

“Alright then, I’ll bring something back for you when I return later.”

The person in the corner nodded gloomily.

Si Qingyu shook her head helplessly and turned to look at the man standing beside her, “Let’s go.”

“Mm.”

Si Qingyu was familiar with the owner of the restaurant. As soon as she came, the waiter would knowingly usher them to a private room on the second floor.

When the dishes were served, Si Qingyu first pushed all the dishes in front of Luo Shaoxuan. Originally, neither of them liked meat dishes much, so besides a steamed fish, the dishes on the table were all vegetarian.

Si Qingyu picked up a piece of tender fish meat and put it in his bowl, “The steamed fish here is very delicious, try it.” With that, she put the chopsticks in his hand.

Luo Shaoxuan picked up the fish meat in the bowl, put it in his mouth and tasted it carefully. Seeing the woman’s eager eyes, the corners of his mouth couldn’t help but curl up, “Delicious.”

The woman smiled and picked up her chopsticks to give him the more tender parts of the fish.

The first floor below was also very lively, everyone was discussing the death at the courtesan house.

“You say there hasn’t been such a thing in our town for a long time, and now suddenly someone dies, and dies in such a manner…… It’s really scary.”

The rough-looking woman sitting next to her didn’t think it was scary at all, it was just a death, not like she hadn’t seen it before, but: “What’s so scary about this, the murderer is the scary one.” The woman’s voice was loud, and as soon as she spoke, people on the first and second floors looked in their direction.

Someone looked at her with amusement, “Niu Lao’er, don’t tell me you know who the murderer is?”

The woman called Niu Lao’er gave her a disdainful look, “You’re talking nonsense, aren’t you? If I knew, I would have gone to the yamen to collect the reward long ago.”

“Tsk!” Everyone looked at her with contempt, thinking she knew some gossip.

Niu Lao’er ignored them and rubbed her rough hands together, saying with a lewd look, “But that little courtesan was good-looking and had good skills, I was thinking of going to find him for some fun in a few days, sigh, what a pity.” After saying that, she even shook her head in seeming regret.

“Hey, you already have one at home, and you still want to go out and have fun.”

Niu Lao’er glanced at her, “The one at home isn’t as good as the ones outside, crying and whining all day long, it’s annoying to even look at.”

Everyone also knew what kind of person this Niu Lao’er was, a scumbag who drank and gambled all day. But what did that have to do with them?

Someone brought the topic back, “Who do you think the murderer is? If they killed them, why did they have to skin the person’s face?”

“Tsk,” Niu Lao’er drained the alcohol in her cup, her face flushed, clearly drunk. Her voice got even louder, “Why did the murderer skin the face? Either they were jealous of the little courtesan’s good looks, or……” She drank another cup and continued with a flushed face, “Or the little courtesan seduced some woman into bed, and the woman’s husband got angry, so he skinned his face, burp.” After saying that, she even let out a drunken burp.

The woman beside her saw that Niu Lao’er was so drunk that her whole body was in a daze, and couldn’t help but tug at her, “I say, stop drinking and talking nonsense.”

“Exactly.” Others agreed, thinking she was talking crazy, after all, which husband could be so fierce.

“Who said I’m talking nonsense!” Niu Lao’er still wouldn’t give in, she slapped the table and stood up, continuing to argue.

Si Qingyu in the private room on the second floor listened to every word, her brows tightly knitted. Although she had heard from Zhao Sixi today that someone had died, she didn’t expect them to die in such a……

She continued to focus on listening to the voices of the people downstairs, not noticing the abnormality of the person beside her.

Luo Shaoxuan’s eyes were half-closed as if tempered with ice, chewing the food in his mouth carefully, the hand holding the chopsticks trembling from being clenched too tightly.

He put down his bowl and chopsticks, reached out and forcefully turned Si Qingyu’s face towards him, his jade fingers gently smoothing her furrowed brows, “Why are you frowning?”

Si Qingyu only then came back to her senses in a daze, her brows relaxing. She grabbed his hand and brought it to her lips for a light kiss, “It’s nothing, I just heard yesterday that someone died in town.”

Luo Shaoxuan looked at her indifferently, “What does that have to do with you?” He didn’t want her to be troubled by anything or anyone other than him at all.

Si Qingyu was stunned for a moment, this…… indeed had nothing to do with her.

While she was in a daze, Luo Shaoxuan lowered his eyes to look at her lips, slowly leaning towards her, his lips and tongue intertwining tightly with hers, holding the hand that was pushing him away tightly against his chest.

He felt that this posture was not convenient enough, so he directly pulled her into his arms, entangling with her.

The ambiguous sound of saliva smacking made people blush when they heard it.

Si Qingyu resisted at first, after all, this was a restaurant, what if someone came in? But her strength was far from his, so she had no choice but to let him do as he pleased.

The other noises in her ears also faded away, leaving only the person in front of her.