Rebirth: The Journey of an Heiress-Chapter 1578 - 1573: Gaining Military Merit Alone

The doctor’s words that Lu Yuanpeng couldn’t last a few more hours felt like a knife repeatedly stabbing into her heart, over and over, leaving her in unbearable pain.

There were only a few hours for someone to go and fetch Doctor Hong; it was definitely too late for a round trip. It was better to take Lu Yuanpeng with them.

Soon, the carriage was ready, but Bai Jinzhi was still uneasy, so she sent someone ahead to Shequ to invite Doctor Hong. She accompanied Lu Yuanpeng by carriage to Shequ, as this would save the most time.

The carriage couldn’t be too slow or too fast. Bai Jinzhi knelt beside Lu Yuanpeng, tightly gripping his hand, continuously talking to him, regardless of whether he could hear her or not.

"Sima Ping once said that after the world is united, the three of us would travel together to taste the best food in the world. He also promised each of us a set of warm jade chess pieces! If he doesn’t want to give them to us... he said it would be only when we can beat him at chess! Didn’t he say that for the two of us to beat him, our eldest young lady must teach us chess? If you get better... I will ask our eldest young lady! Ask her to teach us chess..."

With the jolting of the carriage, Bai Jinzhi’s voice trembled.

"Lu Yuanpeng, you must get better. Once we are back in Dadu City, we won’t tell Sima Ping about your injury this time. Otherwise... Sima Ping will definitely say we can’t survive on the battlefield without him—without him, we get injured..." Bai Jinzhi tightly gripped Lu Yuanpeng’s hand, "Did you hear me!" 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

Doctor Hong was busy treating the seriously injured soldiers who returned with the Bai family army and Anping army. He had just finished and was about to rest when Wei Zhong personally came to invite Doctor Hong.

"Lu Commandant’s legitimate grandson, Lu Yuanpeng, was seriously injured while protecting King Gaoyi. His condition is quite bad. The carriage is already on the way back, and His Majesty, hearing of the critical situation, had to trouble Doctor Hong, sending this old servant to personally escort him to welcome the return!" Wei Zhong’s expression was solemn.

Bai Qingyan originally thought when Bai Jinzhi said Lu Yuanpeng was hit with a few arrows, it was like her injury, a superficial one. After all, Lu Yuanpeng was wearing armor. She hadn’t expected Lu Yuanpeng to take an arrow for Bai Jinzhi in the back and endure without a word all the way back.

She had Wei Zhong fetch Doctor Hong and ordered someone to bring all the arrowheads retrieved from the wounded. She sat under the candlelight, carefully comparing them.

Bai Qingyan held up the arrowheads from the Xiping army and those from Zhou, carefully comparing them under the light.

Currently, all the arrows used by Zhou were coated with ink powder, making them exceptionally sharp!

Yan Kingdom’s arrows also had nearly half coated with ink powder. But where did the Xiping army get their ink powder from?

She raised her eyes. Tianfeng Kingdom...

Perhaps, while Murong Li allied with Dongyi Kingdom, the King of Yan secretly linked up with Tianfeng Kingdom!

This was likely Sal Khan’s twofold preparation.

Bai Qingyan had no doubt that Murong Li had made early contact with Tianfeng Kingdom. Although Murong Li wanted to create trouble for Zhou, he understood Tianfeng’s ambitious nature, hence he chose Tianfeng Kingdom.

To find out what was going on between Tianfeng Kingdom and the King of Yan, they needed to capture the Crown Prince of Xiping alive tomorrow and interrogate him. He won’t hide anything under torture.

She casually tossed the arrows back into the black lacquered tray before her; currently, Tianfeng Kingdom no longer appeared as a threat in Bai Qingyan’s eyes...

As the Monarch of Tianfeng Kingdom, Sal Khan suffered great losses at the hands of the Zhou and Yan allied forces on Xiliang’s turf. Instead of thinking of reorganizing, cultivating agriculture, or building another Elephant Army upon returning, he kept eyeing the jade cicada in her possession, pinning hopes on vague and unrealistic concepts such as time reversal.

Such a Monarch, although capable in battle and strategy, could never amount to much!

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Doctor Hong’s carriage met the one carrying Lu Yuanpeng not far from leaving Shequ City.

At the sight of Doctor Hong, Bai Jinzhi’s tears rushed out, "Doctor Hong!"

Doctor Hong bent and climbed into the carriage, knelt beside Lu Yuanpeng, held his wrist for a pulse, then, with a serious expression, ordered Yingshuang to take out small pills and aged ginseng slices from the medicine box. He pried open Lu Yuanpeng’s mouth, making him hold the pills and ginseng slices, and instructed the coachman to hurry back to the city.

Seeing that Doctor Hong wasn’t like the previous doctor who did nothing, Bai Jinzhi felt a glimmer of hope. She wiped her tears with her sleeve and dared not disturb Doctor Hong, quietly sitting by Lu Yuanpeng’s side.

"Fourth Miss..." Doctor Hong turned to Bai Jinzhi, who still had tear stains on her face, "Sixth Young Master Lu’s... injuries are very severe. I will do my best, but you must be mentally prepared."

Bai Jinzhi understood the meaning of these words, her palms unconsciously tightening...

Yet if even Doctor Hong couldn’t save Lu Yuanpeng, who in this world could!

"Lu Yuanpeng, I’ll write to Sima Ping in a moment!" Bai Jinzhi said to Lu Yuanpeng again, "Doctor Hong will do his best, but... if you don’t fight for it and don’t get better before Sima Ping arrives, just wait for him to mock you!"

The carriage entered Shequ City, and Bai Qingyan personally watched as they carried Lu Yuanpeng into the warm room heated by an earth dragon. Doctor Hong had already written the prescription on the carriage, and someone was sent to decoct the medicine for Lu Yuanpeng.

But when the medicine was ready, administering it became another problem.

"Lift him up, pinch his nose... pour it down! The medicine must be administered..." Bai Qingyan said gravely.

If the medicine couldn’t be administered, then it would mean awaiting death.

Wei Zhong, hearing this, carefully supported Lu Yuanpeng’s wounds, lifted him up. Bai Qingyan, enduring her leg injury’s pain, took the medicine bowl from Yingshuang, and fed the medicine to Lu Yuanpeng with a spoon, giving small amounts to avoid choking him. Anyway, she managed to get a bowl of medicine down.

Bai Qingyan put down the medicine bowl and said to Yingshuang, "Keep administering the medicine this way when there’s more!"

"Alright!" Yingshuang nodded earnestly.

"Your Majesty, King of Zhong has arrived!" A soldier reported outside through the cotton curtain.

Bai Qingyan wiped her hands with a handkerchief and said to Yingshuang, "Yingshuang, take good care of Lu Yuanpeng!"

Yingshuang nodded again, "I will not leave him for a moment!"

"Good child!"

Bai Qingyan glanced at the pale-faced Lu Yuanpeng, believing that he was a child blessed with great fortune and would surely recover.

Bai Jinzhi glanced at Lu Yuanpeng on the bed, seeing her eldest young lady already supported by Wei Zhong and stepping over the threshold, and she chased out, "Eldest Young Lady..."

Hearing the voice, Bai Qingyan, sitting on the shoulder carriage, turned back to look at Bai Jinzhi.

"Eldest Young Lady, Seventh Brother has arrived, are you planning to dispatch troops to Xiping County?" Bai Jinzhi’s fists were tightly clenched by her side, "If you are going to attack Xiping County, I want to go too!"

She wanted to avenge Lu Yuanpeng, to cut the Crown Prince of Xiping’s head and tell Lu Yuanpeng, proving that if he didn’t get better, the battle to destroy Yan would proceed without him, and she would singlehandedly claim the military merits.