This was the letter Pei Yunmeng gave her when she left today.
Pei Yunmeng said it contained a prescription.
A prescription...
Suddenly, Lu Tong remembered the night at the Hanlin Medical Institute. She had sneaked into the medicine store, holding a medical record in her hand. She couldn't see the records clearly before being blindfolded by someone, but the place he was flipping through at that time...
The lamplight burned quietly as Lu Tong cast her eyes down.
Let it be; whatever he intended to do, it was none of her concern. It was all just a transaction, after all.
She bowed her head and opened the letter in her hands.
...
The lamps inside the Capital Marshal's Mansion were brighter than usual, staying lit later into the night.
In the half-bright, gently-breezing night, the lush green banana plants by the window started to fill with the intermittent chirping of insects.
When Xiao Zhufeng returned to the Marshal's Mansion, it was already deep into the night.