The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 787: hard way
Chapter 787 Hard work along the way
Killing people is not the right thing to do. In this treatment center, Liang’s army watched their comrades die every day due to not taking medicine… The bodies of their comrades were continuously carried out of the treatment center and burned, which had a great psychological impact on the Liang soldiers.
The fear in their hearts will become more and more terrifying as their illness worsens.
The Zhao army, on the other hand, was very tough. Not a single one of them who was infected with the disease bowed down to ask for medicine. They sat in the treatment center, looking with contempt at the Liang soldiers who were kneeling on the ground to beg for medicine, and were ready to die.
When Zhao Sheng learned from the Liang army doctor who bandaged his wounds that his deputy general was seriously injured and died because he refused to take the Jin people’s medicine, and when he knew that his most capable subordinates, Zhao Qi and Wang Yu, had also contracted the disease and were sent to the treatment center, Zhao Sheng was extremely panicked.
He looked at the Liang army doctor who was sorting out the medicine box and asked, “Does the decoction that Jin gave our Liang soldiers work?”
Speaking of this, the old military doctor could not help but nod his head: “It works! I’ve read the prescription… It is indeed suitable for the symptoms, but I have adjusted the prescription a little with Doctor Hong, the military doctor from Jin. After all, the physiques of people from Daliang and Jin are somewhat different due to the climate. After the adjustment, the prescription… The decoction is much milder for us Liang people.”
“The Jin army showed you the prescription…?!” Zhao Sheng looked surprised.
“Yes, I was also very surprised at the time. However, the doctor surnamed Hong from Jin said that teachers teach their students knowledge without discrimination, and doctors save people without discrimination. The soldiers of Daliang were also born by their mothers and raised by their fathers. They are all human beings… so they all need to be saved!” The old military doctor sighed, “I really admire the broad-mindedness of this doctor from Jin. If I were in their shoes, I deeply think… we in Daliang can’t do it.”
Zhao Sheng clenched his fists slightly. This Doctor Hong… Zhao Sheng knew that he was a very famous doctor close to Bai Weiting, the King of Jin State, and was the military doctor of the Bai family army.
He closed his eyes and recalled Bai Qingyan’s words that the world is one family again. He felt that even the doctors of the Bai family’s army could save people regardless of their motherland. This showed that Bai Qingyan’s words about the Bai family’s long-cherished wish to unify the world were not false.
“I still have to go back to take care of the wounded, so I’ll leave first…”
Zhao Sheng watched the old military doctor leave, and finally made up his mind. He picked up the tea in front of him and drank it all. He stood up with the help of the table and said to the Jin soldiers guarding him outside: “Please tell the princess that I want to go to the treatment center to see my subordinates.”
The Jin soldier looked at Zhao Sheng, nodded, and went to report to Bai Qingyan.
Bai Qingyan was standing at the Qingxi Mountain Pass with Liu Hong, welcoming Fan Yugan and Zhang Duanning, who were delivering food, supplies and medicinal materials sent by the prince, to show their respect for the prince.
When Bai Qingyan heard Zhao Ran say that Zhao Sheng wanted to meet his subordinates, she knew that Zhao Sheng most likely wanted to try to persuade his subordinates first and then come to see her.
Bai Qingyan lowered his voice and said to Zhao Ran: “You go and personally accompany Zhao Sheng to meet whoever he wants to meet, but… when Zhao Sheng talks with his subordinates, you stay away from them, and don’t let Zhao Sheng feel that you are monitoring him.”
“I understand!” Zhao Ran responded and turned to leave.
Liu Hong looked back at Zhao Ran who was leaving in a hurry, then looked at Bai Qingyan and asked, “What’s the matter?”
“General Zhao Sheng of the Zhao family army wants to meet his subordinates. I’ll have someone take Zhao Sheng to meet them.” Bai Qingyan did not hide it from Liu Hong.
Liu Hong nodded, looked at Bai Qingyan, who was standing under the blazing sun with bloodless lips, and said, “Princess Zhenguo should go and rest first. The princess is of noble status and is not feeling well. There is no need to force herself to stay here!”
Bai Qingyan waved his hand, pretending not to know that the prince had already sent the imperial physician, and said, “If I’m not here, and the people sent by the prince know and go back to tell the prince…I’m afraid that will make the prince worry.”
Liu Hong stopped trying to persuade him and just nodded. When he heard Lin Kangle say he was coming, he looked into the distance…
This time, the prince took great pains for Bai Qingyan and sent more food, fodder, and medicinal materials than any previous time.
As soon as Zhang Duanning arrived, he stepped forward to greet Bai Qingyan and said… The prince also specially asked him to bring an imperial physician, saying that he wanted the physician to stay and take care of Bai Qingyan’s health.
Bai Qingyan glanced at the imperial physician who was being helped down from the carriage. It was the same imperial physician who had examined Bai Qingyan’s pulse in the Crown Prince’s Mansion. She bowed to Zhang Duanning and said, “Your Highness, I am sorry for the trouble!”
“Sister Bai!” Fan Yugan walked quickly to Bai Qingyan, saluted Bai Qingyan and Bai Jinzhi, and said with a smile, “Lü Yuanpeng joined the army just to fight with Sister Bai on the battlefield one day! Before, I asked him and Sima Ping to go back to Dadu with me, but he was unwilling… He said that if they went to Southern Xinjiang, they would have the opportunity to see Sister Bai’s heroic figure on the battlefield and fight with Sister Bai. They did go to Southern Xinjiang, but they didn’t expect Sister Bai to come to Daliang! Hahahaha… I was still the first to see Sister Bai’s heroic figure!”
Fan Yugan had a bright smile and clear eyes, and at first glance he looked like a young man who was ignorant of the ways of the world.
“Sir!” The butler of the Fan family who came with Fan Yugan hurriedly reminded him, “You still have to be polite when you see the Princess Zhenguo! How can you call her sister?”
“It’s okay…” Bai Qingyan smiled at Fan Yugan, “Thank you for your hard work along the way.”
“It’s not hard! It’s not hard! I didn’t do anything along the way. It was all arranged by Uncle Zhang Shishu. I just followed him in the carriage all the way.” Fan Yugan said.
The Fan family housekeeper: “…”
The imperial physician got off the carriage and walked to Bai Qingyan and saluted: “Greetings to the Princess Zhenguo. I am ordered by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to immediately diagnose the Princess Zhenguo’s pulse upon arrival. Please move!”
Bai Qingyan nodded and followed everyone into Liu Hong’s tent.
Not only the prince wanted to know Bai Qingyan’s physical condition, but Liu Hong, Lin Zhenkang, Wang Xiping and others also wanted to know.
Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Bai Qingyan placed his wrist on the pulse pillow. Bai Jinzhi knelt beside him, looking nervously at the imperial physician who was frowning and checking his pulse: “Imperial physician, how is my elder sister?”
Fan Yugan also came to Bai Jinzhi’s side and asked the imperial physician: “Imperial physician, Bai…how is the health of Princess Zhenguo?”
After the imperial physician finished taking the pulse, he withdrew his hand and bowed to Bai Qingyan: “Princess Zhenguo, your health is worse than before when you were in the Crown Prince’s Mansion! I have said…Princess Zhenguo needs to rest, but Princess Zhenguo has exhausted herself and her body on the expedition. Do you really not take your life seriously?”
Fan Yugan was shocked: “Doctor, you must have made a mistake. Sister Bai looks… looks… a little thinner and paler, but… but…”
Bai Qingyan remained calm, put the wrist guard in place, and said to the imperial physician, “Please ask the imperial physician to go back and tell His Royal Highness the Crown Prince that Bai Qingyan’s health is slowly recovering. Please don’t let the Crown Prince worry about me.”